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Re: Show HN: Taken Photos – Free Stock Photos Annotated by AI

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Post by willvarfar »

This desperately needs a text search feature!

The first thing I thought of was 'oooh, maybe put a pic on the landing page of this website I help out with' but I can't search for e.g. 'chess' or whatever theme I want.

The whole point of the site is to annotate the photos, but then to not make them searchable by annotation? Shame!

Re: Show HN: Taken Photos – Free Stock Photos Annotated by AI

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Post by msamoylov »

willvarfar wrote: post #2

This desperately needs a text search feature! The first thing I thought of was 'oooh, maybe put a pic on the landing page of this website I help out with' but I can't search for e.g. 'chess' or whatever theme I want. The whole point of the site is to annotate the photos, but then to not make them searchable by annotation? Shame!

That's the first thing in my todo list. Thanks for clarifying.

Re: Show HN: Taken Photos – Free Stock Photos Annotated by AI

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Post by tristanperry »

willvarfar wrote: post #2

This desperately needs a text search feature! The first thing I thought of was 'oooh, maybe put a pic on the landing page of this website I help out with' but I can't search for e.g. 'chess' or whatever theme I want. The whole point of the site is to annotate the photos, but then to not make them searchable by annotation? Shame!

Agreed and it's nice to hear it's first on the todo list.

Until then, though, just change the word in the tag (with hyphens for multiple words), e.g.:

https://taken.photos/tags/chess/ https://taken.photos/tags/tabletop-game/

Re: Show HN: Taken Photos – Free Stock Photos Annotated by AI

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Post by msamoylov »

ethor wrote: post #4

Is there anyway to read more about the technical bits regarding how this is done, i.e. how are the annotations made?

Sure, why not. I scrape multiple Russian websites with photos and annotate pics with https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service...

Surprisingly MS does much better than Google and their https://cloud.google.com/vision/

I tried both and got frustrated with almost random results from Google.

Re: Show HN: Taken Photos – Free Stock Photos Annotated by AI

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Post by yorwba »

msamoylov wrote: post #6
ethor wrote: post #4

Is there anyway to read more about the technical bits regarding how this is done, i.e. how are the annotations made?

Sure, why not. I scrape multiple Russian websites with photos and annotate pics with https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service... Surprisingly MS does much better than Google and their https://cloud.google.com/vision/ I tried both and got frustrated with almost random results from Google.

Those platforms you're sourcing the photos from presumably have content restrictions, which causes the "nude" tag to be dominated by photos without any humans in them. For example this flame: https://taken.photos/photos/2568745/
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