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Zerox’ Image Search Algorithm will Tell you if Photos are Good or Bad

 

Zerox’ Aesthetic Quality Image Search uses and algorithm that divides photos into two very straightforward categories, photos that suck and photos that doesn’t suck. If you think of it, when you are looking for a decent photo in the internet and don’t really have an eye for photos, what really will matter to you is that if is it any good or not. Zerox’ image search project will help you figure out if the photos that you are looking at are any good or not. This will be useful when there’s nobody else around to ask for an opinion.

The engine specializes in different subjects, like beaches, portraits and skies. The photos go through an image categorization engine that understands the content of the images (no texts and tags are required for the engine to process the images). The algorithm uses different parameters to evaluate the photos according to a particular subject matter. Then, the aesthetics rating engine separates the images with good and bad aesthetic elements.

Aside from telling bad and good photos apart, Aesthetic Quality also offers a few tips on how to capture images that are worthy of their “Good Images” section.

Here’s an example of the photography tip:

“A good beach image contains high cliffs, rugged coastlines, eroded landforms, pounding seas. Fast shutter speed (higher than 1/250) will stop the motion of the waves and freeze sea spray. Slow shutter speed will blur the waves and soften the seascape.

Add human elements and a sense of scale.

Head for piers and rocky promontories to include the sea in the foreground.

A polarizing filter will often improve the colour and contrast around the water.

Ref: Lonely Planet’s Guide To Travel Photography

 

Tags: Aesthetics, Image Search, Photos, search, Zerox

The YouTube Insult Generator Makes Insults Searchable

The YouTube Insult Generator doesn’t really generate insults for you out of thin air. It functions more like a search engine. What it does is look for insults found on Youtube based on the keyword that you’ve entered. It’ll then give you insults you can use against a person who doesn’t like that term.

It finds stuff only about 50% of the time, but it works surprisingly well when it does work. Try general terms (“car”) and pop culture (“michael jordan”, “i love lucy”). Each insult includes a link to its source YouTube video.

How does this work? It uses the YouTube API to search for the top 50 most relevant videos for your search term. For each of those videos, it grabs the latest 50 comments. Then it looks through all that for comments starting with a number followed by a word such as “people,” “youtubers” or “nincompoops.”

Some people may not approve of something like this being created but I for one welcome anything that can be used to improve an existing comments system structure. Besides, where’s the fun is reading comments if not for the “smart” insults?

 

 

Tags: Comments, Insult Generator, youtube

Child’s Own Studio Turns Children’s Drawings into Real Custom Toys

Did you ever wish that you could have turned your childhood creations on paper into something real? – Something that you can actually hold? Some might have been lucky enough to hold the drawings that they made when they were a child. Now, you can actually make a child’s drawings into real toy with the help of an awesome company called Child’s Own Studio.

Child’s Own Studio started with a simple project, to make a recognizable comfort toy for a 4 year old boy based on his drawing. It was an idea that launched a home-based craft business. Since then, Child’s Own Studio has custom made over 200 personal softies, each one as unique as the child who drew it.

The details and color choices are reproduced as closely as possible so that the stuffed toy that arrives in the mail is immediately recognizable to the child who designed it. It’s a fun, rewarding process, and kids love seeing their drawings come alive. It’s a great gift of choice for kids who loves to draw and create imaginary characters on paper. The next time you think of a gift for your kids, check out Child’s Own Studio.

Tags: children, Soft Toys, Softies, Toys

PsDisasters: The WTF Site for Photoshopped Images

Photoshop is a great tool, there’s no arguing in that. Its image enhancement features are unparalleled. But, the tool can only be as powerful as they say it is if, and only if the user knows what he’s doing and understanding its limitations. It’s like owning an expensive camera and not knowing what to do with it, thus making it somewhat useless. Well, not entirely, you could always learn to do it right- right? So if you think that knowing how to crop an image in Photoshop makes you a good ‘shopper, then think again. There are professionals who clearly missed (or forced to miss) a thing or two when they published their work. And there’s a website dedicated in collecting those disasters.

The PSDisasters website collects flawed photoshopped images. You can view new submissions in blog-format or choose to view older images randomly and surprise yourself. There are images where the error(s) is pointed out and there are images where you can figure out the “disaster” by yourself. If you ask me, you could turn this website into a game where the user can look for Photoshop WTFs in each image. You know, pretty much like spot the difference.

Photoshop is a great tool, but there are limitations. You (or your boss) shouldn’t force things just because you can in Photoshop. Remember that a lot of people are going to see your work. If it hits the web, it stays there forever- I mean like FOREVER.

[PSDisasters]

 

 

Tags: Disasters, Flaws, Photoshop, PSDisasters

Creepy Interactive Girl

I’ve seen many creepy things on the internet. This one just made my top 10 list. Head over the creepy girl page and hover your mouse pointer around and watch the interactive creepy girl follow it around with her reddish eyes. Also watch her make some expressions.

 

Tags: Creepy, Creepy Girl, interactive, Interactive Girl

Read About Stuff that Happened in your Birth Year

Bored? Looking for an entertaining read? Why don’t you try reading about the things that happened in your birth year? I’m pretty sure that you’ll discover some interesting facts and stuff that actually happened during your birth year by just visiting the website whathappenedinmybirthyear.com.

While it won’t take a lot of work to research fun facts and events that happened on a particular year, whathappenedinmybirthyear.com will make things even easier for you. Simply type your birth year, sit back and enjoy the facts as they get streamed right in front of you.

Not only that you can use the site to find out bits of facts about your birthyear, try browsing other years as well and get an instant “blast from the past” facts that happened while you were growing up. It’s always fun to get a little bit of history lesson every now and then, especially if that piece of history is somewhat related to you.

Source: [Neatorama]

Tags: Birth Year, Facts