tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7553278593406733377.post6288960900270395940..comments2024-03-20T00:37:30.189-04:00Comments on Photo Business News & Forum: ALIPR - Image Recognition for KeywordingJohn Harringtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16941161605443479300noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7553278593406733377.post-62404612935762443722008-10-13T19:49:00.000-04:002008-10-13T19:49:00.000-04:00John:I had first brought ALIPR to the attention of...John:<BR/><BR/>I had first brought ALIPR to the attention of my Controlled Vocabulary forum (http://www.ControlledVocabulary.com/forum.html) in the fall of 2006. <BR/><BR/>According to their website (then and now), ALIPR uses a vocabulary of 332 English words. I fed it an image of a young boy yelling (the same one used in the IPTC Core sample images) in November of 2006, and was asked to check boxes next to those terms that were correct. Out of the list of: landscape, building, desert, historical, rock, animal, wild life, indoor, bath, kitchen, people, cloth, female, face, and glamour; only "people" and "face" were correct. I repeated this test with the same image in the spring of 2008, with only one correct match as a result (people). One would think that over a years time the system would have "learned" and gotten better, but this does not seem to be the case. <BR/><BR/>Several other images I tested at the same time did fare a little better, but the best results still only yielded three correct matches per image.<BR/><BR/>If you take a look at the most recent 15 images (http://www.alipr.com/cgi-bin/alipr_recent.cgi?n=15) and take a look at the "guessing" done by ALIPR, you’ll see that this technology is still in the early stages of development.<BR/><BR/>Check out the UK startup Imense, http://www.imense.com/ for another take on how this technology is progressing. <BR/><BR/>David Riecks<BR/>--<BR/>Need Keywords for your database? Get the Controlled Vocabulary Solution<BR/>http://controlledvocabulary.com/products/David Rieckshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02745213003950808869noreply@blogger.com