Think & Play

Thoughtplay is the creative team behind various popular websites and other projects. At this blog we give away bright ideas regularly, and comment on interesting trends both online and off. The thought channel is for more business-related trends, play looks at entertainment and leisure, and thoughtplay introduces our own creative ideas, as well as news about our projects.

Alternative ways of analysing image content | 051106

Image searches on the web are a tricky area: filenames don't always relate to content, and it's hard for computers to identify what they depict. Until now: new research at Penn State University has come up with a software method for recognizing image content. This could be a major breakthrough (if it works).

If you prefer to trust people, there's always Google's crowdsourcing Image Labeler.

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