Have you looked at Alchemy API? Recently acquired by IBM's Watson unit,
they do decent image recognition.
Nate
On Nov 16, 2015 6:05 PM, "Glen Barnes" <[email protected]> wrote:

> We’ve just done some initial testing with Clarifai
> <http://www.clarifai.com> for
> auto-tagging images. The tags are not 100% but I think there is an
> opportunity there to tag using something Clarifai and present these tags to
> users - “Do any of these tags describe the work? painting, barn, landscape,
> tractor”
>
> They have 5000/month free plan which is good for testing. I would be
> interested to see if others have had any experience with this or similar
> systems.
>
> Cheers
> Glen
>
>
>
>
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> > Message: 2
> > Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 17:51:03 +0000
> > From: "Sternbergh, Margaret" <[email protected]>
> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> > Subject: [MCN-L] Online Collections Tagging
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> > Having recently made our collections available online for viewing and
> > searching, we are beginning to determine next steps to make the database
> > more useful. One priority is tagging the collection for context (style,
> art
> > movement, etc), material (wood, metal, etc) and other useful searchable
> > terms. We'd like to learn from other institutions who have recently
> > embarked on such a project. If you have undertaken a tagging project and
> > would be available to answer a few questions of from our registration
> team,
> > please be in touch.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Margaret
> >
> > Margaret Sternbergh
> >
> > Manager of Gallery Interpretation
> > The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
> > P.O. Box 6826
> > Houston, Texas 77265-6826
> > 713.639.7749
> > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
> >
> > www.mfah.org<http://www.mfah.org>
> >
> >
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