<div dir="ltr">i agree that first we need to be able to handle the indexing of non-text content such as pictures etc before moving onto specific features for this content which would be useless without it (like building the roof of the house without any walls)<br>
<br>is this being considered by the wikia team at all? or do they have any thoughts as to how to progress with this at all. IMO we should consider grub for this in the same way as we already do with text <br><br>regards<br>
<br>mark<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Gérard Dupont <<a href="mailto:ger.dupont@gmail.com">ger.dupont@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">I'm not sure that face recognition is the good feature to add for now. The first step is to add indexation by content for media (image and more) and then using some tricks, face recognition (and more generally object recognition) could be used.<br>
<br>There is plenty ways to implement image indexing (lot of feature extraction components exists and Lucene adaptation to image indexing too).<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/7/21 Jimmy Wales <<a href="mailto:jwales@wikia.com" target="_blank">jwales@wikia.com</a>>:<div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>Marc . wrote:<br>
> I personally think that image search could be a major difference between<br>
> Wikia Search and other big Search Engine (like google, yahoo etc)<br>
> The big engine are really "bad" when proposing an image search.<br>
> I think that, for a "simple" start, someone looking for a image of<br>
> someone else in the net could upload an image with a face and the<br>
> SE look in the net for other similar images (yes there is tech for it).<br>
> Get a look in <a href="http://www.face-rec.org/" target="_blank">http://www.face-rec.org/</a> they have a lot of resources that<br>
> could be applied for it (and no, i don't have any relations with<br>
</div>> <a href="http://face-reg.org" target="_blank">face-reg.org</a> <<a href="http://face-reg.org" target="_blank">http://face-reg.org</a>>).<br>
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I am on a plane and can't look right now, but is their work free software?<br>
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