--- F R E N D Z of martian --- ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: GeeK: Isreal Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 10:06:04 -0500 (EST) From: David Helder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Weird program of the day: Isreal, determines whether a picture is real, unreal, or just realistic. It does this by loading the image and applying some sort of heuristic. But does it work? I ran Isreal on 4 pictures of Flavor Flav, all of them real and this is what I got: chuckflavorL.jpg unreal flavor.jpg unreal flavorflav.gif unreal flavormost.jpg realistic It also determined that Elvis and Nixon were unreal, but the Wonder Twins were realistic. You can get this program at ftp://ftp.freeradius.org/pub/isreal/ Here's the README: ------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION ------------ This is an ABSOLUTELY USELESS program so far as I can tell. That being said, it's pretty funky. :-) It tells you whether or not a particular image is in one of three categories: real A real picture of a real-life thing. realistic A realistic, but computer generated or modified picture. unreal Not a picture of a real-life thing. For example, scanned pictures are classified as "real". Images from Quake3, or ray-traced images, or computer enhanced/modified images are "realistic". Corporate logos and cartoons are "unreal". It doesn't work on monochrome images, sorry. But it does appear to give good results on most greyscale and color images. HOW IT WORKS ------------ It uses 'imlib' to load the images, and then walks through the picture RGB data, and gathers statistics on the picture. It then uses some simple heuristics to classify the picture. Simple, huh? Of course, I'm sure you're wondering how such a stupidly small program can classify the images. I guess you'll just have to trust me. There ARE good reasons why it works. If you want to know those reasons, please do NOT email me. I won't answer your questions. Alan DeKok. -- __ _ __ ___/ /__ __ __(_)__/ / David Helder - University of Michigan / _ / _ `/ |/ / / _ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_,_/|_,_/|___/_/|_,_/ http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~dhelder -- AppDev Ltd. - Internet Solutions Provider. http://appdev.co.uk/ Cheap, fast, good. Choose two. -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
