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Automated Image & Video Metadata

Posted by Bryan Loar on April 9, 2009

Facial recognition software has been seen as one way to automate tagging.  Picassa has been using facial recognition software since last fall to suggest tags to users.  Polar Rose…

employs a browser plugin to allow users to tag people in photos anywhere on the web. The startup uses those photos to construct a 3D image of the person, and then make educated guesses as to who is in untagged photos. The new version of Polar Rose will notify that friend on Facebook who has been tagged in a Flickr photo that they’ve been named in your photos. Your friends can decide if they want their name in public or not (until they sign up and decide for themselves, Polar Rose keeps their identity them private).

Megan Macken (Univ. of Chicago) conducted an interesting interview with Marshall Breeding last year.  Towards the end of the interview, Breeding discusses his involvement with automated metadata in the realm of video.

Via: TechCrunch

Spotted by: Dilvie

Posted in Images, Metadata/Tagging | 2 Comments »

Copyright suit over Shepard Fairey’s Obama image

Posted by Meredith Kahn on February 9, 2009

Another recent NYTimes article of interest:

Artist Sues The A.P. Over Obama Image

“In a pre-emptive strike, the street artist Shepard Fairey filed a lawsuit on Monday against The Associated Press, asking a federal judge to declare that he is protected from copyright infringement claims in his use of a news photograph as the basis for a now ubiquitous campaign poster image of President Obama.”

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Search Flickr by Color

Posted by rcooper on September 29, 2008

Idee Labs has come up with a way to search Flickr images by color.  It’s fun to play with, but might also make some visual resources folks think a bit.  We already know that people don’t always search for images by content, and that there are plenty of images that just aren’t easily findable through keyword searches.  What if you could find your Rothko images this way?

Check out the multicolor search, as well as others, at:

http://labs.ideeinc.com/

Posted in Images, Technology, Visual Resources | 1 Comment »

Amazing VRC Videos!!

Posted by mmacken on September 10, 2008

(reposted from VRA-L)

The University of Texas School of Architecture’s Visual Resources Collection has produced five short videos (ranging from 1 to 2 minutes long) available via YouTube:

The following link will bring up all videos in this series: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=soa+visual+resources&search_type=&aq=f

[We need replicate their Web Resources functionality on our ArLiSNAP Resources page!!]

Posted in Digital Imaging, Images, Instruction, Visual Resources | Leave a Comment »

Trending via Stock Images

Posted by Bryan Loar on July 18, 2008

In order to stay competitive, Getty Images must predict upcoming image needs.

Via: Slate

Found on: PSFK

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Image Metadata Crowdsourced via Tagcow

Posted by Bryan Loar on July 11, 2008

Tagcow which utilizes Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk provides users metadata for their image collections. Prices stare at $9.95 for 250 photos.

Hmm…

Via: Springwise

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EFF and Marybeth Peters on Orphan Works

Posted by Bryan Loar on May 22, 2008

Corynne McSherry gives a breakdown and a call to action for orphan works legislation in the US. One thing that was written that I didn’t know about was…

Congress also plans to certify searchable databases for visual works like photographs, graphic arts, and textile designs that will collect information about works and contact information for the related copyright owners.

Certification? Really? Congress? Well, the Register of Copyrights doesn’t want to take it on.

Here’s what Marybeth Peters said in March, 2008 (The Register of Copyrights, before the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property, Committee on the Judiciary)

As a side bar, we believe that the Copyright Office’s role in technology should be limited to reviewing best practices that are submitted to us. For example, we would not want to certify databases or other technological tools because we do not have the technical expertise to undertake such tasks. Moreover, we are not persuaded that certification should be a central concern. A user should take advantage of all reasonable tools likely to lead him to the copyright owner, regardless of whether the government has blessed that tool. [Emphasis added]

EFF – Release the Orphan Works!

Marybeth Peters – US Copyright Office

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PicLens

Posted by mmacken on March 10, 2008

Here is a really exciting browser plug-in that makes Flickr and other image sites a lot more fun to view. It could potentially be used for presentations. Pulling images from the hard drive is not officially supported yet, but there is a way to work around this in FireFox. (Thanks to Arno Bosse for introducing me to this plug-in!)

From the PicLens site:

Think beyond the browser

PicLens instantly transforms your browser into a full-screen, 3D experience for viewing images on the web. Photos will come to life via a cinematic presentation that goes well beyond the confines of the traditional browser window. With PicLens, browsing and viewing images on the web will never be the same again.

NEW! Immerse yourself in 3D Style.

Our new interactive “3D Wall” lets you effortlessly drag, click, and zoom your way around a wall of pictures for an extraordinary, full-screen viewing experience. Why mundanely flip through online photo galleries or squint at thumbnails from Google Image Search when you can fly through an immersive, full-screen experience instead? Learn more.

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Watch the World Speak

Posted by Bryan Loar on February 27, 2008

David Troy, master of the mashup, has created two very addicting sites–Twittervision and Flickrvision.

In both cases, the mashup is between Twitter/Flickr + Google Maps.  Because it is animated, it gives it a feel of immediacy and dynamism.

Posted in Images: Photographs, Technology | 2 Comments »

HELP! Quick Sample of Questions for Student CCO Project…

Posted by louismunoz on December 13, 2007

Hi all,

De-lurking here. Finishing up my semester at Pratt, student project due on Cataloging Cultural Objects. If you can take a few minutes to answer as many of the questions as you can, maybe even add some comments, I’ll be very grateful. (Any responses you wish kept off the record will be honored.)

Thanks, Louis in Brooklyn.

1-Do you/your institution use CCO? If so, for how long? If not, any particular reasons?

2-If you don’t use CCO, how familiar are you with it? Self-study, or from other work/interests?

3-How effective are the CCO content standards? Also, do you find it easy to use/implement?

4-What are your favorite/least favorite features? (What do you like best/least about it?)

5-BIG one for my project: Have you seen users’ image searches improve with CCO? Why or why not?
(Any anecdotes, examples, will be extremely appreciated.)

6-CCO: Wave of the future? Or not enough to achieve goals?

7-How easy is CCO to use with other descriptive standards tools & metadata element sets?

8-Whether you use CCO or not, does your work entail more of documenting cultural objects or describing images of objects?

If there is anything you’d like to add that I haven’t addressed, please feel free to include.

Thanks in advance for everyone’s help! Hope I can either return the favor and/or pay it forward, and have a great holiday season, all!

Louis Munoz
louismunoz@yahoo.com

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