On 8/1/07, Alistair Edwardes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Hi Alistair, you may also be interested in checking out the Yahoo Research's ZoneTag project: http://zonetag.research.yahoo.com/ and their TagMap Project: http://tagmaps.research.yahoo.com/ They have been pulling the tags from geolocated photographs in all of Flickr (not a small database) to build these kinds of databases like you suggest. The ZoneTag API lets you easily query this database. I've built a Firefox GreaseMonkey script that you can use on any of your photos in Flickr to pull up suggested tags based on ZoneTag. But as your project seems to be addressing is that just given a location isn't enough. If I'm standing on the south bank of the Thames in London I could be photographing: Parliament, Big Ben, Millenium Eye, Millenium Bridge, Tower of London, or even just a bird, interesting wall, pub, and more. So it will be interesting to see if a photograph of a bird on a railing of the river would get tagged with "Globe Theater" :) Andrew _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
