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This is only tangentially related, but VizWiz[1] is an app developed by researchers to help blind people "see" objects around them. The user takes a picture of
by bo1024 10y ago
This is only tangentially related, but VizWiz[1] is an app developed by researchers to help blind people "see" objects around them.
The user takes a picture of the object with their phone and asks a query, and it is uploaded to a crowdsourcing platform (Mechanical Turk, I think) where workers answer the query, e.g. "What are the ingredients in this can of food?"
[1] http://www.vizwiz.org/ http://www.vizwiz.org/
- hackuser 10y agoThat's great. "combines automatic image processing, anonymous web workers, and members of the user's social network in order to collect fast and accurate answers to their questions."
- RobMurray 10y agoThere is also TapTapSee[1], which gives you a description of a picture, Bespecular[2] which sends pictures plus a question to volunteers, and Be My Eyes[3] which connects you to a volunteer by video call. My wife Vicky did an interview with the BBC about be my Eyes.[4] [1]http://taptapseeapp.com/ http://taptapseeapp.com/ [2] https://www.bespecular.com/ https://www.bespecular.com/ [3] http://www.bemyeyes.org/ http://www.bemyeyes.org/ [4] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39056979 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39056979