Photographs in the dark

Thursday, 19. April 2007, 09:13:37

Gregory posted a bunch of photos, wondering what they actually were. I finally made some time to go through them and label some. We used to talk about having a system that would let a blind person ask a number of different people to describe things. So, here it is (although we haven't yet automated the process of extracting a handful of descriptions, that has been done by people who build CAPTCHA-busting software).

So, if you wonder what a blind person does with a camera, the answer seems to be "same as everyone else - take some great photos and some dreadful ones, and show them to people".For some of the shots, the fact that the camera is a cheap nasty one is actually a bonus - it creates a real mood. For others it is a big shame, because they would be cool with a little higher quality.

Anyway, if you have time to describe a few photos, I am interested to see how other people go about it in practice... Maybe something really useful can be built out of this.

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Comments

Interested. How to label ?

PS: http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/ ?

By dantesoft, # 19. April 2007, 10:04:13

Well, in this case I am labelling for a specific person I know, and they are not images selected at rnadom but photos he has taken (admittedly, since he can't see them, some of them are random too). But most of them were taken of a specific thing in theory.

So I am just adding comments to the photos in his album, describing them.

By chaals, # 19. April 2007, 11:09:37

Originally posted by chaals:

So, here it is

You mean posting a MyOpera album, and waiting for comments ?

I think it's a poor choice because even though 6 of the images are high resolution (I assume 640x480 the best the camera has), the MyOpera servers messed (again) with the content: all the JPGs the camera produced are now huuge PNGs.

By dantesoft, # 19. April 2007, 11:38:31

Well, that sounds like poor behaviour that should be fixed.

/me wanders off to follow up, and then remembers to thank Dantesoft for pointing it out.

By chaals, # 19. April 2007, 11:51:55

Now I'm not even 99% convinced the MyOpera server monkeys messed with the images: they were downloaded from the camera on a separate occasion. Also, my feeling that their different resolution had something to do with it is offset by the missing telltale sign of the wrong content encoding.

By dantesoft, # 21. April 2007, 05:31:36

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