I got a chance to see this software in Japan the last time I visited Hitachi's Central Research Labs. It was impressive. Unfortunately, I couldn't tell anyone about it because it was still under wraps.
Now that it's out in the open, here's a post with some details. Briefly, it does rely on pre-indexing of the images, it doesn't rely on any text tagging, and it's not intended to compete with Google Image Search et. al. It is intended as an Enterprise application. It is remarkably good at finding faces, even when you don't tell it you're looking for faces. And it even works on video clips.
Unfortunately, they didn't give me a copy to take home.
The table was a nice, fast way to keep things aligned as I was going through the template. Pick a snippet, paste it in a cell, write pithy little comments on the other side so that I can remember what that snippet was doing. Repeat until eyes blur.
Remember, this was done for my benefit and posted only in the thought that others might find it useful.
Guys, it's just a sandbox for playing around. Get your panties out of their wadness.
However, I will agree that this particular post wasn't very well suited to the current incaranation of the blog format. It's a Blogger Blog - and a small side project - so there's not a lot of room to play with.
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I got a chance to see this software in Japan the last time I visited Hitachi's Central Research Labs. It was impressive. Unfortunately, I couldn't tell anyone about it because it was still under wraps. Now that it's out in the open, here's a post with some details. Briefly, it does rely on pre-indexing of the images, it doesn't rely on any text tagging, and it's not intended to compete with Google Image Search et. al. It is intended as an Enterprise application. It is remarkably good at finding faces, even when you don't tell it you're looking for faces. And it even works on video clips. Unfortunately, they didn't give me a copy to take home.
Alas, I have not impressed you. My life and wellbeing are for naught. Goodbye cruel world.
Or maybe not.
In any case, thanks for doing the lookups for me. I'll be sure to plagiarize your conclusions in a later update to the post.
The table was a nice, fast way to keep things aligned as I was going through the template. Pick a snippet, paste it in a cell, write pithy little comments on the other side so that I can remember what that snippet was doing. Repeat until eyes blur.
Remember, this was done for my benefit and posted only in the thought that others might find it useful.
Here's a larger version, pre-enlarged for geriatric eyes. Enjoy at your leisure.
PS Much love to the gracious anonymous defenders.
Guys, it's just a sandbox for playing around. Get your panties out of their wadness.
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However, I will agree that this particular post wasn't very well suited to the current incaranation of the blog format. It's a Blogger Blog - and a small side project - so there's not a lot of room to play with.
If you are actually interested in the content (as opposed to just interested in being snarky), there's a plain-jane version now up at http://www.wilkinsons.com/Bananna/BetaCodeLargeTy
I plan to move the post to another forum soon so that others can bask in the abuse. Meanwhile, I'm enjoying watching the counter spin.
P.S. Ripping apart others? You sure you're reading the same blog I am?