Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
"Flickr takes the sun out of the sunset" -- The picture to the left from Flickr shows the full picture and its square thumbnail, in the inset. Thumbnails like these are generated automatically by Flickr and other photo management systems. They work by taking a portion from the ...
Posted in ContentDM, Flickr, Hardin MD, Human input, Pattern recognition, PicsYes, Thumbnails, Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
Friday, July 11th, 2008
As computers have become more powerful, many of the aspects of handling text that were formerly done by humans have been taken over by computers. Pictures, however, are much more difficult to automate -- Recognizing patterns remains a task that humans do much better than computers. A human infant can ...
Posted in Google, Hardin MD, Human input, Image Search, Pattern recognition, PicsNo, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
