On 21/06/07, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
On 6/21/07, Stephen Bain
<stephen.bain(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On a tangent, what do some of the Commons
regulars think of the system
Facebook has for tagging people in photos? That would seem to be an
application that would be very useful for Commons.
Is there a description for non-facebook-users? Or do I have to become a member?
I independently came up with, and sort-of worked out how to build, a
system like that one... and then someone said to me, as I was
explaining my wonderful idea, "what, you mean like Facebook"? I hadn't
used it, but they helpfully showed me...
I felt a little silly :-)
Basically, you take a photo, you allow people to click somewhere on it
and tag that point as being a named person. It can then use this to
find all photos with a certain person in, or "name" the person (via
mouseover?) when looking at the photo.
It has various elegant applications if you want to take it to the next
level - the idea I was thinking of was for archival photograph
databases, where you could select a little rectangle around the face
and tag it. Later, you could ask the system "show me Joe Smith" and
have it generate a set of all these headshots to help figure out
whether or not he appeared in an unlabelled image...
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk