New software advances photo search and management in online systems
New research from Penn. State University. The full-text of the paper is available: Tagging over Time: Real-world Image Annotation by Lightweight Meta-learning

See Also: Many more related papers can be accessed here along with several demos from James Z. Wang’s Research Group and their Research on Intelligent Media Annotation.

See Also: Research Paper: PhotoSpread: A Spreadsheet for Managing Photos (via Stanford InfoLab)

See Also: Reuters Labs Launches “Search People in Video”

See Also: Much More About Content-Based Image Retrieval (Lots of Demos)
Including an OCR demo from Germany’s Freenet.de.*
* The OCR demo from Freenet.de is no longer available, you can still view the interface here (translated using BabelFish). Specifically, it reads, “Term must be contained in the picture as text.” The technology came from Cobion, now part of IBM. Learn more here.

Thanks to P.W. for his help with this post.

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