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We’re going to use the ImageWiki Redmine to post news

May 30, 2008 – 10:27 am
I think we'll try using the ImageWiki Redmine site to post new news. Wordpress is nicer and better but Redmine is more integrated in one place. See http://makerlab.org/projects/imagewiki/news

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Submission for Ignite Portland

May 28, 2008 – 11:05 am
After much wrangling on the text - we submitted for Ignite Portland. Fingers crossed! Here's the submission entry http://ignite-proposals.pragmaticraft.com/proposals/43

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Idee’s TinEye Project

May 27, 2008 – 10:11 am
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/26/mr-jobs-heres-an-idee-for-you-put-tineye-image-search-into-iphoto-500-invites/ Here's yet another image recognition project. In this case the claim is for a fairly narrow set of recognition capabilities. Nevertheless it shows how quickly this space is going to grow. May you live in exciting times!

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Recent MIT AI Lab research on image recognition.

May 24, 2008 – 6:03 pm
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/csail-tt0521.html Here's an interesting bit of research out of MIT. The article points out the huge challenge today in identifying features of images and talks about efficient representation of exactly what key features are required to hold onto a fingerprint of an image. This work is from Antonio Torralba, assistant professor at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and his colleagues.

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About the ImageWiki

May 23, 2008 – 12:41 pm
The ImageWiki project comes out of a year long conversation between all of us over at http://makerlab.org. Paige, who comes from an arts background, kept asking for a way to visually search for similar images. It took us all a while to figure out what a good idea it was - and once we saw the implications we sat down right away and knocked out a site. The implications, In the near future a variety of companies are going to release tools that let you use your cellphone camera as a way to let you find out more about something. You will be able to point your camera at a restarant menu and find comments and reviews about the food. You will be able to find out more about a book, a poster, a music album or anything else that you point your camera at. You'll ...

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ImageWiki

May 8, 2008 – 9:12 am
Welcome Earth being, we come in peace.

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