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Searching with Images instead of Words
johnsee writes "A computer vision researcher by the name of Hartmut Neven is developing ingenious new technology that allows the searching of a database by submitting an image, for example, off a mobile phone camera. Imagine taking a photo of a street corner to find out where you are, or the photo of a city building to see its history"
..imagine being the guy who has to photograph EVERY STREET CORNER IN THE WORLD.
"Nobody owns the fucking words man." - James Dean
*Uploads porn*
Now, machine, find me a hooker!
So when do you combine this with Fleck's nude recognition algorithms to provide a service that can identify a person by partial nude picture?
The possibilities are endless!
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Imagine taking a photo of a street corner to find out where you are, or the photo of a city building to see its history
or a photo of your wife to see...
oh never mind.
Enter search criteria: (.)(.)
Table-ized A.I.
I'm a beta tester for this product and have gotten some scary results. For instance, I was on vacation in Yellowstone and took a photo of Old Faithful with my camera phone. I submitted it and it gave me back search results for tubgirl!
"Man on man"? Man oh man, Freud would love this!
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1: Take picture of current date's frontside archtecture.
2: Submit to search.
3: Reply: You can do better than that. Try her older sister.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Actually, what I look forward to is searching with a picture of Waldo. Maybe I can finally find him.
Sounds like we may have a winner for Wired's 2005-2010 Vaporware awards.
Imagine you're going through photos of your latest vacation and you find one of a street corner which you snapped while on a drinking binge. Since, in your drunken stupor, you don't remember where it was, you can just submit it to find out the history of the building and perhaps discover other famous people who have similarly vomited in that vicinity.
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
The real killer app will be taking out hotornot's MeetMe funding (you know, if you want to actually talk to someone you click on, you have to pay money); you just google for their picture, and find them that way :)
--TheOrangeSquid Is it any wonder things seem so awry? We swim in a sea of confusion and don't have to think to survive
"Imagine taking a photo of a street corner to find out where you are..."
Imagine reading that street sign you just took a photo of to find out where you are.
SIGFAULT
Or submit a picture of your vomit to discover similar celebrity vomit. Or celebrities that look like your vomit.
I am no longer wasting my time with slashdot