Hello,
It sounds nice in theory. But knowing the current limitations of object
recognition and our category/tagging system on Commons, I don't see how
it could really help to improve the project. For example: We don't tag
every object in the background since it is much better for the user to
find images inside the categories that have this object as the main
motive. In case of something like a ball it would need to correctly
distinguish between a football, a globe, marble, melon, etc. If it
guesses wrong and would add the tag it would accidentally increase the
efforts for our maintainers.
Maybe you want to elaborate in more detail what possible use cases you
have in mind, where it would be a real help for our contributers. I like
the idea, but at the same time I see a lot of difficulties to transform
it in a realistic improvement for the project.
~nya
Am 19.03.2012 17:55, schrieb Vivek kumar bagaria:
Hello all,
I am Vivek Kumar Bagaria
<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Bagariavivek>, 2nd year student
from IIT Madras. I am interested in participating in
*GSoC 2012* with mediawiki. I am *working with Mediawiki from past two
months* and have submitted various patches.
I was very much interested in the idea of -
"Automatically tagging photos in Wikimedia Commons using computerised
object recognition", which was suggested
by Maarteen Dammers in the GSoC 2012 Page
<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2012>
I have *experience* with OpenCv. I had done a project last summer
which involved detection of a ball. This is the youtube link - Ball
Following Robot <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcXBcUvCC1w>.
I would like to know if anyone is willing to *mentor* this idea. I
would *love* to work on this idea.
Thank you,
Vivek Kumar Bagaria
IIT Madras
--
With regards,
Vivek Kumar Bagaria
9176079646 <tel:9176079646>
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