hannahntilly
Veteran
- Location
- Surrey, UK
- Name
- Peter
I'm writing this as a result of the "Post an image of yours related to the one above it!" thread that I've posted to separately. I generally backup all of my photos to Flickr & Google Photos.
What has astonished me is the ability of Google Photos to identify the content of photos through machine-learning. My experience is that Flickr does not have the same capacity. I'm a very lazy tagger of meta-data in photos and generally only note the location. Searches in Google Photos for items such as "bicycle", "window", "sunset", "tree", "door", "windmill" give me very good matches against my catalogue of about 30k images. I have a background in computing and can't imagine how you would go about defining the rules for such image identification - there are some very clever algorithms out there. Indeed, I did a search for "cake" earlier and that gave me some great matches. I've put the first 5 it found into my media gallery below.
Anyway, I just thought I'd share my experience with you all.............
What has astonished me is the ability of Google Photos to identify the content of photos through machine-learning. My experience is that Flickr does not have the same capacity. I'm a very lazy tagger of meta-data in photos and generally only note the location. Searches in Google Photos for items such as "bicycle", "window", "sunset", "tree", "door", "windmill" give me very good matches against my catalogue of about 30k images. I have a background in computing and can't imagine how you would go about defining the rules for such image identification - there are some very clever algorithms out there. Indeed, I did a search for "cake" earlier and that gave me some great matches. I've put the first 5 it found into my media gallery below.
Anyway, I just thought I'd share my experience with you all.............