Image Analysis & Synthesis

[NewsBot]

A while ago there was an article about google having a new feature for searching for people, well actually not any particular person, just fotos of people.

 

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070530-facial-recognition-slipped-into-google-image-search.html

 

But all these innovations could end up being very useful to photographers, and people in general (and problematic in some respects as well - privacy for once).

 

Let's think about all the things we can get in the future from automatic image analysis and indexing.

 

- places (pictures of the white house)

-*architechture (pictures of roman style buildings)

- people (pictures of Bob & Bill)

- times (pictures of Bob at new years eve)

- emotions (pictures of happy Bob)

- situations (pictures of Bob & Bill at the white house, shaking hands)

 

I'm not aware of all the features of photosynth and seadragon, but this all points in the direction of automatic analysis and synthesis of images, which will, undoubtedly, prove very useful.

 

How do you see the future of photo{search,indexing,categorization}?

 

More...

 

View All Our Microsft Related Feeds