Video on Human Computation

[krissel]

Came across this while checking out methods to block spammers from posting at TS.

First 7 minutes relate to the spam problem, but the rest explains some fascinating 'games' created to enlist net surfers to help catalog images for search engines. About 50 minutes total but worth it.



http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8...man+computation

[Gregg]

Just watched the evening news. Hormel is upset with the hijacking of its product name. They are suing SpamArrest for violation of culinary protocol. Seems they are concerned that people might confuse an unsavory e-mail with a tasty meat product. Yeah, right.

[RNKIII]

Think Hormel is a little 'late out of the gate' on that one.

Some time 'common usage' comes into play... like Kleenex...

Bob K  rnkiii

[Xairbusdriver]

If you're the least interested in computers, science, how geniuses think, or just plain interesting people, watch the whole video ( but don't bother with the text, the 'translator keeps printing "capture" when the word being used is "captcha", don't worry, you'll understand what that is in a few seconds and you've probably already 'played' with one! ). Thanks, again, Kris, for the link!

[MamaMoose]

Kris,

Much thanks for the link. This is something that computer scientists have been searching for for a long time. For example, recognition of biological images. Imagine a tissue sample that is suspected of being malignant. However, a room full of histoligists, pathologists and cytologists sometimes cannot agree if 1) it is malignant and 2) what type of malignancy, an 3) what stage the malignancy is in (I have witnessed such problems when I was working on automated cell recognition in cervical cancer samples).

Many of have pondered how to achieve fusion of human and machine recognition. Humans are designed to be the the best at recognizing patterns but we cannot tell how we do it!

This is a major breakthrough in machine vision and has applications to such areas as target recognition (e.g. Where's Waldo?) and criminal justice.

Thanks again for the link - it certainly excited me to see this work.

MamaMoose

[sandbox]

It does address a few questions I had and gave additional value to computer games, which I thought needed validation. It Answers the Matrix dilemma and is a perfect example of speed-talking. (shortmouth) versus shorthand?

[Gregg]

P.S. Thanks for protecting us from Hormel - er, spammers.