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Some observations from 6 testruns: - works good when i "like" with a very broad category (i.e. click on all icons, landscape/city, maps, people - regardless wh
by iammyIP 12y ago
Some observations from 6 testruns:
- works good when i "like" with a very broad category (i.e. click on all icons, landscape/city, maps, people - regardless whether i actually like the picture to hang on the wall or not)
- sometimes shows repeated images
- if a category has not enough pictures in it to show, it doesnt work (synthetic images / pop art)
- robbie williams and elvis presley portrait appear in result even when i liked landscape only, likewise neuschwanstein and beach oilpainting appear when i liked people portraits
for a poster buying decision i would enter "epic landscape", or "elvis presley" or "menger sponge render" into a textsearchengine and the result would be much more precise to what i actually like to see and much faster.
I see two usecases regarding buying a poster:
1. i am a robot and need some poster out of a predefined set of broad categorys
2. i am a tasteless human who enjoys klicking like and who needs to hide a hole in the wall with some semi-random image.
So my main problem with using this for a likeable-image decision is the constant collision of what the picture actually contains for me as a human to read into, and what the pixelbased train algo wants me to do (which i am unsure of what criteria it has).
But all the poster-buy-stuff application aside this is really interesting and for my understanding a difficult problem - nice work!
- glutamate 12y agoThanks for your comments. We try to respect the uncertainty in the calculation of preferences. For instance, if you click a blue Elvis poster, we don't know if it because you like blue or Elvis, hence we end up showing some items that may be far from what you are looking for. That being said, there is without doubt room for improvement and we got a lot of data to help with that today. In the Bayesian lingo, this is all about fine-tuning the priors. One of this things we are excited about is the use case where the user knows what they want, but don't know the word for it. For instance it may turn out that I may like Expressionism (this is in fact true) but I don't know the word for that. If you know that you want an Elvis poster, there isn't much point in using Findmelike right now. I think it would be very cool to have both a text search box where you could enter what you know, and then get the Findmelike visual choice search on the matching items to narrow those down aesthetically.
- iammyIP 12y agoyes, it is also likely that just my personal preferences are somewhat incompatible to this procedure, as i cannot imagine wanting something diffuse i have not even a general description for. The mixture with a text input as basis for a visual choice sounds good. Also it could be nice if the orientation and aspect ratio of the liked images would be taken into account.
- DanielStraight 12y agoI used a pretty specific category for picking images (old fashioned style with a particular place name mentioned) and... it actually seemed to figure that out. I was impressed.