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Show HN: Taken Photos – Free Stock Photos Annotated by AI

49 points by msamoylov 7y ago

willvarfar 7y ago
This desperately needs a text search feature! The first thing I thought of was 'oooh, maybe put a pic on the landing page of this website I help out with' but I can't search for e.g. 'chess' or whatever theme I want. The whole point of the site is to annotate the photos, but then to not make them searchable by annotation? Shame!
- msamoylov 7y ago
  That's the first thing in my todo list. Thanks for clarifying.
- tristanperry 7y ago
  Agreed and it's nice to hear it's first on the todo list. Until then, though, just change the word in the tag (with hyphens for multiple words), e.g.: https://taken.photos/tags/chess/ https://taken.photos/tags/chess/ https://taken.photos/tags/tabletop-game/ https://taken.photos/tags/tabletop-game/
ethor 7y ago
Is there anyway to read more about the technical bits regarding how this is done, i.e. how are the annotations made?
- msamoylov 7y ago
  Sure, why not. I scrape multiple Russian websites with photos and annotate pics with https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/computer-vision/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service... Surprisingly MS does much better than Google and their https://cloud.google.com/vision/ https://cloud.google.com/vision/ I tried both and got frustrated with almost random results from Google.
  - yorwba 7y ago
    Those platforms you're sourcing the photos from presumably have content restrictions, which causes the "nude" tag to be dominated by photos without any humans in them. For example this flame: https://taken.photos/photos/2568745/ https://taken.photos/photos/2568745/
    - msamoylov 7y ago
      Well, there was a bug in my data migration/cleanup script for tags. Thanks for catching. The 'curated collection' statement means 'there is no adult or NSFW' content. AI does great job with detecting nudity, and as a pragmatic person I decided to keep all scraped adult content and have it served at https://nudes.best/ https://nudes.best/
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Mcafeesupport 7y ago
It was great news free stock photos annotated. http://mcafeeactivate-setup.info/ http://mcafeeactivate-setup.info/
joshspankit 7y ago
Suggestion when adding text search: allow “and” tags, such as “outdoor AND person” or “people AND group AND smile”
lpellis 7y ago
What do you use for the AI labelling? Looks pretty accurate, but fun to see the random mistakes A zebra standing on top of a building https://taken.photos/photos/zebra-standing-on-top-of-building-3752577/ https://taken.photos/photos/zebra-standing-on-top-of-buildin...
wahlis 7y ago
My favourite is "A statue of a cement bench"
- ttmbs 7y ago
  https://taken.photos/photos/statue-of-cement-bench-3752798/ https://taken.photos/photos/statue-of-cement-bench-3752798/
mstolpm 7y ago
Nice work. But I would suggest to add a feature to report wrong tags. Perhaps that could even lead to optimize the classification AI or you could at least review the suggestions and delete wrong tags manually?
neals 7y ago
"A cat sitting on top of eachother" https://taken.photos/photos/cat-sitting-on-top-of-each-other-3752961/ https://taken.photos/photos/cat-sitting-on-top-of-each-other... some of these are comedy gold :)
masukomi 7y ago
Interesting. You _really_ need some way for folks to suggest improved captions. A tree with a mountain in the background.... completely ignoring the house which is the central focus of the photo. https://taken.photos/photos/tree-with-mountain-in-background-3752981/ https://taken.photos/photos/tree-with-mountain-in-background... or the aforementioned "A cat sitting on top of each other" I'm thinking this is a great _starting point_ a way to bulk ingest lots of photos, but as a resource i'm going to loose faith in it every time i see an obvious AI screw up. Technically yes, they're still useful titles that help (well, they would help if you had a search which I can only assume you're planning because otherwise what's the point) but _emotionally_ i'm going to be "yeah but they're always wrong" (even if it's not true)
- msamoylov 7y ago
  How about "A man and a dog walking on a sandy beach?" https://taken.photos/photos/man-dog-walking-on-sandy-beach-3752898/ https://taken.photos/photos/man-dog-walking-on-sandy-beach-3... This is the state of modern AI. Mostly it's still utter garbage.
d--b 7y ago
https://taken.photos/photos/woman-standing-in-front-of-mirror-posing-for-camera-3751760/ https://taken.photos/photos/woman-standing-in-front-of-mirro...
calibas 7y ago
Where do the images come from? The "About Us" page says they're all public domain, but this image has a copyright: https://taken.photos/photos/pink-flower-on-plant-3753020/ https://taken.photos/photos/pink-flower-on-plant-3753020/

49 points by msamoylov 7y ago

This desperately needs a text search feature! The first thing I thought of was 'oooh, maybe put a pic on the landing page of this website I help out with' but I can't search for e.g. 'chess' or whatever theme I want. The whole point of the site is to annotate the photos, but then to not make them searchable by annotation? Shame!

msamoylov 7y ago
That's the first thing in my todo list. Thanks for clarifying.
tristanperry 7y ago
Agreed and it's nice to hear it's first on the todo list. Until then, though, just change the word in the tag (with hyphens for multiple words), e.g.: https://taken.photos/tags/chess/ https://taken.photos/tags/chess/ https://taken.photos/tags/tabletop-game/ https://taken.photos/tags/tabletop-game/

ethor 7y ago

Is there anyway to read more about the technical bits regarding how this is done, i.e. how are the annotations made?

msamoylov 7y ago
Sure, why not. I scrape multiple Russian websites with photos and annotate pics with https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/computer-vision/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service... Surprisingly MS does much better than Google and their https://cloud.google.com/vision/ https://cloud.google.com/vision/ I tried both and got frustrated with almost random results from Google.
- yorwba 7y ago
  Those platforms you're sourcing the photos from presumably have content restrictions, which causes the "nude" tag to be dominated by photos without any humans in them. For example this flame: https://taken.photos/photos/2568745/ https://taken.photos/photos/2568745/
  - msamoylov 7y ago
    Well, there was a bug in my data migration/cleanup script for tags. Thanks for catching. The 'curated collection' statement means 'there is no adult or NSFW' content. AI does great job with detecting nudity, and as a pragmatic person I decided to keep all scraped adult content and have it served at https://nudes.best/ https://nudes.best/

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Mcafeesupport 7y ago

It was great news free stock photos annotated. http://mcafeeactivate-setup.info/ http://mcafeeactivate-setup.info/

joshspankit 7y ago

Suggestion when adding text search: allow “and” tags, such as “outdoor AND person” or “people AND group AND smile”

lpellis 7y ago

What do you use for the AI labelling? Looks pretty accurate, but fun to see the random mistakes A zebra standing on top of a building https://taken.photos/photos/zebra-standing-on-top-of-building-3752577/ https://taken.photos/photos/zebra-standing-on-top-of-buildin...

wahlis 7y ago

My favourite is "A statue of a cement bench"

ttmbs 7y ago
https://taken.photos/photos/statue-of-cement-bench-3752798/ https://taken.photos/photos/statue-of-cement-bench-3752798/

mstolpm 7y ago

Nice work. But I would suggest to add a feature to report wrong tags. Perhaps that could even lead to optimize the classification AI or you could at least review the suggestions and delete wrong tags manually?

neals 7y ago

"A cat sitting on top of eachother" https://taken.photos/photos/cat-sitting-on-top-of-each-other-3752961/ https://taken.photos/photos/cat-sitting-on-top-of-each-other... some of these are comedy gold :)

masukomi 7y ago

Interesting. You _really_ need some way for folks to suggest improved captions. A tree with a mountain in the background.... completely ignoring the house which is the central focus of the photo. https://taken.photos/photos/tree-with-mountain-in-background-3752981/ https://taken.photos/photos/tree-with-mountain-in-background... or the aforementioned "A cat sitting on top of each other" I'm thinking this is a great _starting point_ a way to bulk ingest lots of photos, but as a resource i'm going to loose faith in it every time i see an obvious AI screw up. Technically yes, they're still useful titles that help (well, they would help if you had a search which I can only assume you're planning because otherwise what's the point) but _emotionally_ i'm going to be "yeah but they're always wrong" (even if it's not true)

msamoylov 7y ago
How about "A man and a dog walking on a sandy beach?" https://taken.photos/photos/man-dog-walking-on-sandy-beach-3752898/ https://taken.photos/photos/man-dog-walking-on-sandy-beach-3... This is the state of modern AI. Mostly it's still utter garbage.

d--b 7y ago

https://taken.photos/photos/woman-standing-in-front-of-mirror-posing-for-camera-3751760/ https://taken.photos/photos/woman-standing-in-front-of-mirro...

calibas 7y ago

Where do the images come from? The "About Us" page says they're all public domain, but this image has a copyright: https://taken.photos/photos/pink-flower-on-plant-3753020/ https://taken.photos/photos/pink-flower-on-plant-3753020/