Stop Motion Day

2008-11-07T05:20:00.000-08:00

Une vidéo inspirée par la génération Internet, ultra-connectée à chaque instant. Conçue à partir de milliers de photos toutes prises en 1 seule journée dans la ville de New York, et éditée en stop-motion par Micah Spear.

Human Computing

2008-10-14T06:28:00.000-07:00

The computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh developed a game in 2003 that uses gamers to actively improve the web.
"We're trading entertainment for labour," says Prof von Ahn.
His Extra Sensory Perception (ESP) Game reveals the same image to two players and asks each to guess what the other person has written to describe it. If they agree, that word or phrase is then used to annotate the picture.
Repeating the same image with other pairs of players, the computer eventually builds up a detailed label.
100m pictures have already been labelled in this way, prompting the popular search engine, Google, to buy a licence from Professor von Ahn's team to create its own version of the game.
Google Image Labeler was launched in 2006 and helps to return better search results for online images.
Popularity problem
Tools like this are needed because as a general rule, computers do not understand images. Someone searching for a picture of a rabbit on the web, for example, will only find it if it has been correctly labelled with the tag 'rabbit'.
Unfortunately millions of online pictures and videos are either poorly tagged or have misspelt descriptions, making it almost impossible to track them down using search engines.

If we outline enough pictures of dogs, for example, the hope is that in the long-run the computer will know itself the outline of a dog
Luis von Ahn
The ESP Game could be a quick solution to this problem. Professor von Ahn claims that if it were as popular as other online games, all the images on the web would be labelled in a matter of weeks.
The only barrier is making it interesting enough to attract enough players.
The game has 1m registered users, but only a fifth of them play it regularly. "There's no game out there that is liked by 100% of the population," he admits.
In an effort to get more players on board, his team is trialling four new games through a slicker, more user-friendly site called gwap.
One of them, called Squigl, asks a pair of players to trace around an object in a picture using their mouse, earning points for how closely they matches their partner's outline.
"This really trains the computer to see. If we outline enough pictures of dogs, for example, the hope is that in the long-run the computer will know itself the outline of a dog," he explains.
Another game, called Matchin, asks players to pick the most beautiful image out of two they are shown, helping to build a database of the web's most attractive pictures.
Semantic support
Games like this may improve web searches, but the ESP Game does not solve the underlying dilemma of getting computers to understand pictures for themselves, according to some researchers.

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2008-10-07T11:02:00.000-07:00

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2008-10-07T10:33:00.000-07:00

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