New Camera Doesn’t Take Pictures. It Describes Them
it was just prototype Camera.The “Descriptive Camera” doesn’t work like your normal point-and-shoot camera. Instead, this contraption prints out a description of the photo you take, rather than an image itself. The camera was created and developed by Matt Richardson, he is a photographer and programmer, for a Computational Cameras class at New York University‘s Interactive Telecommunications Program.
Matt Richardson explains on the blog that the camera snaps a picture, then sends it to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, a service in which humans are paid a small sum to do jobs that computers cannot solve, like describing the contents of a picture.
“After the shutter button is pressed, the photo is sent to Mechanical Turk for processing and the camera waits for the results,” Mr. Richardson writes. ”Results are returned typically within 6 minutes and sometimes as fast as 3 minutes. The thermal printer outputs the resulting text in the style of a Polaroid print.”
In a phone interview Mr. Richardson said, “A lot of people suggested that this could be a good product for someone who is visually impaired, or I could build text-to-speech into the camera for a blind or deaf person.”
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Title : New Camera Doesn’t Take Pictures. It Describes Them
Description : New Camera Doesn’t Take Pictures. It Describes Them it was just prototype Camera.The “Descriptive Camera” doesn’t work like your normal p...