Hi all,
I usually lurk on this list, but I wanted to let you know about some
work we're doing that might, judging by the number of posts on
geotagging photographs, be of interest people here and also to ask if
anyone could help out by taking part in some online experiments.
The project is called Tripod (www.ProjectTripod.org). It's based on the
premise that the geography of where a photograph was taken plays a
central role in how it is described. Our aim is then to automatically
caption images using high level descriptors that have been derived from
analysis of geographic databases at the location where the photo was
taken. We'll then use more conventional technologies from information
retrieval to index these and hopefully allow them to be better searched
using textual queries.
As part of this project we are investigating how people describe images
using their own words. So I wanted to ask if anyone could kindly support
this work by participating in a set of interactive online experiments .
We have tried to design the experiments to be fun and self-explanatory
and they will, in total, take between 30 and 45 minutes of your time.
To participate please follow the link:
http://snipurl.com/tripod_experiments If you are unable to access this
page please use the alternative at http://snipurl.com/tripod2
I'd also be most interested to hear anyone's opinions on the project and
this work.
Many thanks,
Alistair Edwardes
University of Zurich
P.S: Please feel free to forward this mail to anyone who you think may
be interested in participating in the experiments.
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