{"id":1442,"date":"2009-12-07T23:06:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T06:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2009-12-07T23:06:05","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T06:06:05","slug":"google-goggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2009\/12\/google-goggles\/","title":{"rendered":"Captioning photos using image recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been having a lot of fun with Google Goggles<\/a>, an image search app for Android phones.<\/p>\n

In my previous post<\/a>, I included a few videos to quickly show off what it can do, but tonight I found a very practical use for the application. I’ve traveled to Europe a couple of times and taken plenty of pictures of famous landmarks, but I never got around to actually captioning them. I may have been able to recall where everything was immediately after the trip, but years later I don’t even know which country some of the photos (which aren’t geotagged) were taken in. Fortunately, one of the things Google Goggles is pretty good at recognizing is landmarks. Knowing this, I’ve been able to figure out where many of my pictures were taken simply by taking pictures of my pictures!<\/p>\n

I recorded a video to show how this works. The landmark recognition bit<\/a> begins about 4.5 minutes into the video.<\/p>\n