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Visual Image Search and
Physical Hyperlinks
anselm@hook.org
paigesaez@gmail.com
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project #1:
qrcodelove.com
• Two years ago
Paige fell in love.
• With a barcode.
• QRCodes;
a low-fi version
of physical hyperlinks
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Physical Hyperlinks
• Physical hyperlink is a neologism that refers
to extending the Internet to objects and
locations in the real world.
• Physical hyperlinking does this by attaching
urls to tangible objects or locations.
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How does it work?
• same basic idea as the qrcode project
except only now there is no code
• We take a photograph of something and
find similar images using robot vision
techniques
• Like a barcode we get back context
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Such as...
• Criticism and praise
• Author, description,
• History, Medium, era,
• Similar looking images
• Where to get more
• Your longitude,latitude
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Locative uses
• bookmarking places
• knowing where your friends are or were
• knowing where you are
• a landscape like australian song lines
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Implications?
• Images used to be mute; how does this
alter our relationship, interpretation and
construction of images?
• Will images supplant words as a way of
talking to computers? To each other?
• For example see
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Legal freight trains
• If most peoples reality is mediated by a
consensual interpretation - one not
favorable to brands - how will brand
owners respond?
15.
Code is law
• Copyright owners may over-eagerly scour
the web looking for theft - reducing
everybody elses vocabulary.
• Having a power doesn’t mean we should
always use it.
16.
finding a balance
• How do we avoid
being overzealous
one way or the
other?
• How can we protect
free speech?
• How do we protect
fair use?
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Our thoughts
• Foster an open image commons
• Like Wikipedia
• Associates images with meta-data
• Protects common interest
• Prevents undue private control
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Building it
• Add photographs
• Document them
• Creative Commons Licensing
• Let anybody (not just Google) handle
search requests