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"Exactly what humans do." Isn't that because the real work is being done by a human?
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I think you're missing the point of it.
Am I? Would the point somehow be served if you took a self-portrait and the response back was "haha ur so ugly"...? (I should add that I know that Amazon offers a review process, but I am not sure how it integrates with the above camera, and I am thus assuming that the camera automatically has to accept a description as correct before printing it out. This might not be the case; and I don't know.)
Thare are already systems that can analyze wounds automatically by analyzing pictures of it.
Add speech synthesis and this would be an awesome camera for the blind.
Even with a six-minute latency?
http://whaleycopter.blogspot.com/2007/09/project-jteg-compre...
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Medical analysis I don't think I would rely on a description from a Mechanical Turk human for describing what they see in a pictue. Is that a tibia or a fibula?!?
Right - you don't send to Mechanical Turk. You instead send it to a highly trained backend workforce, presumably highly skilled in the vertical that you are doing analysis on. And, it's not just a picture, but video/sound/other sensing. Who knows what the next advances in remote telemetry will be.
Of course, you need to pay well enough to get enough people to bother, but I imagine one could build a reasonably skilled workforce for many areas if your training material is good and you have an objective measure of the correct answer.
This image description application is both perfect and terrible for Mechanical Turk though - it's an ideal task for a human rather than a computer, but it's also impossible to score the result objectively, so you'll have to pay everyone, all the time, or introduce another level of scoring - "Is this an accurate description?" "Does this description read fluently in $LANGUAGE" etc.
Amazing - the meta concepts behind the "Descriptive Camera" are limited only by the imagination, the resolution of the sensing devices, the ubiquity/bandwidth of the data pipe, and the ability to manage/train the backend human workforce and maintain a consistent level of quality. I'm pretty certain, that within 3-5 years, a billion dollar company will emerge using the basic concepts captured by the "descriptive camer…
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-----------------------------------Amazing - the meta concepts behind the "Descriptive Camera" are limited only by the imagination, the resolution of the sensing devices, the ubiquity/bandwidth of the data pipe, and the ability to manage/train the backend human workforce and maintain a consistent level of quality. I'm pretty certain, that within 3-5 years, a billion dollar company will emerge using the basic concepts captured by the "descriptive camer…
I think the fauna/flora possibility is the strongest. There are lots of amateur gardeners (me:-) who would love to snap something and find out what it is (and hence how best to feed, water and shade it). I've often thought this should be possible with an android/iphone app.