Commons works to have all plant photos identified by species and these link to WP articles they would fnid commons as a better fit by being the database for their software...From our POV a focus on copyright issues would be a more valuable tool
2011/9/27 とある白い猫 <[email protected]> > Certainly it is their first attempt in plant identification. They are > dealing with very few species of plant as well. Such phone apps could > eventually be very useful as for example you point your phone at... anything > and it links to the wikipedia article - in the language setting of your > phone! Consider this labs progress in the next few decades... To them we are > just another image repository but unlike other image repositories we are > seeking to tag images in less specialized manner. For instance an image > repository for birds would generally avoid tagging birds by color but > instead by species or some other scientific categorization, commons on the > other hand wouldn't mind such categorization. > As I said before, people shouldn't expect perfect species identification > overnight but perhaps this could be the result of research for the next few > decades. They currently are considering dropping commons because they do not > see any use for commons, we could show them potential fields of research > using commons by basically telling them about our problems. For instance > dealing with images we frequently delete (over copyright, trolling and etc) > could easily be a task for them. > > -- とある白い猫 (To Aru Shiroi Neko) > > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 20:39, Paul Houle <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 9/26/2011 1:32 PM, Andre Engels wrote: >> > >> > Every small category is a part of a big category. A system such as >> > this will not be able to specify plant species, but it might well be >> > able to find pictures of plants. If it then gives a list of plant >> > pictures that are not in some plant category, animal pictures that are >> > not in animal category, buildings that are not in a regional building >> > category, maps that are not in a map of category, paintings that are >> > not in a painter category, famous people that are not in a people >> > category etcetera, it could deliver those to volunteers to further >> > classify. >> > >> The ImageCLEF people are getting such great results because >> they're working in a specific and limited domain >> >> http://www.imageclef.org/2011/Plants >> >> The goal is to identify plants by looking at their leaves. An >> obvious application is to build this into a mobile device -- you could >> snap a picture of a leaf on a plant or remove a leaf and photograph it >> against a good surface and it tells you what sort of plant you're >> looking at. This would be a great tool for any gardener's toolbox, >> anywhere on earth. >> >> I'm looking forward to seeing people solve more problems like this. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Commons-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > > -- GN. Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com Gn. Blogg: http://gnangarra.wordpress.com
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