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Tuesday, January 06, 2009

ALIPR | Automatic Photo Tagging

Out of curiosity I went browsing for an answer on how color pickers can retrieve color related pictures, which I guess depends on photographic histograms, I stumbled upon ALIPR (Automatic Linguistic Indexing of Pictures in Real-Time), the NOT so smart photo tagging/search engine.

It is supposed to be a smart photo search engine that knows exactly what you're looking for.

According to Gizmodo.com:

"An amazing innovation in the software world today: ALIPR (Automatic Linguistic Indexing of Pictures) is a program that takes a look at digital images, applies some fancy math and then spits out a list of appropriate tags for the picture. It isn't perfect, but the designers claim it has a 98 percent accuracy rate. They've been letting it dig through Flickr and the software has matched at least one user-defined tag almost every time." – Karson Thompson

The truth is, it's Far from smart. Even the messed up Ask.com returns better results than this crazy search engine. The only query that got me related results were "landscape historical desert", it returned two pictures of the Pyramids.

Note to self: Stick to Google, shut up and forget how experimental apps such as that color picker work.

Sunday, January 04, 2009

Brrr

Yes, it is that cold outside. Not just a digit.

Saturday, January 03, 2009

R.I.P. | Q8speed.com

Q8speed.com is dead and gone.
I have nothing to add. [link]

Friday, January 02, 2009

The Dome?

Anyone knows what's that building?
It's close to the airport.

Thursday, January 01, 2009

2009

I have never had new year resolutions but this year I have one, and it's "Keep on without Shesha". Yes, I didn't mention this before but I have managed to quit shesha two months ago even without another Operation Rehab and now I am determined to keep it this way.

Now I'll leave you with some random pics before deleting them from my hard drive...