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Searching for information on your cell phone by typing keywords can be cumbersome. But now researchers at Microsoft have developed a software prototype called Lincoln that they hope will make Web searches easier. According to Larry Zitnick, a Microsoft researcher who works on the project, phones equipped with the software could, for example, access online movie reviews by snapping pictures of movie posters or DVD covers and get product information from pictures of advertisements in magazines or on buses.
Lincoln is a Microsoft Research prototype which allows you to search for information about an object by just taking a photo of it. Your photo is matched against a set of images tagged with relevant web pages and comments supplied by a community of users.
With Lincoln you could…
- Link your band’s concert poster to an MP3 download
- Link a postcard to your holiday photos on flickr.com
- Link restaurant signage to an online menu
- Link a CD cover to your own review
- Link your yearbook photo to your blog
Lincoln was designed to recognize photos of printed materials. The material should contain large text, pictures or graphics. Lincoln will not work well on photos of 3D objects such as faces, although it would work on a photo of a photo of a face (like the yearbook example above).
This chart displays the type of images that may or may not be recognizable by Lincoln, Microsoft’s image-based search software for mobile phones.
Read more at Technology Review article
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