http://blog.imgseek.net Roadmap, news and feedback Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:55:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Flickr Suggestions demo had been offline for the past weeks but should be now online. http://blog.imgseek.net/2007/12/03/demo-downtime-over/ isk-daemon has just been released as opensource (GPL) in the hope that this will drive its adoption further. See some source code instructions. Voice over Internet is basically the transmitting of voice conversations over an internet connection. When online phone technology was originally developed and offered to the public, more businesses rather ... http://blog.imgseek.net/2007/08/29/isk-daemon-opensourced/ Basic user recommendation is now available on the "Users" tab. Recommendation algorithms available: By tag frequency for photo contributions of each user: what the system does is score each other user on the database based on the number of tags you have in common. Each user is represented internally as a ... http://blog.imgseek.net/2007/06/12/new-user-recommendation-feature-available/ Rough draft on features to come: Improved content-based image searching: External image (by upload or URL) suppport for similarity search Sketch applet for searching for similar images Image recommendation based on: currently favorited photos (by visual similarity or tags) contacts Contact recommendation based on: contacts in common currently favorited photos (by visual similarity or tags) < your suggestion here ! ... http://blog.imgseek.net/2007/05/24/flickr-suggestions-roadmap/ Work on isk-daemon has fallen behind initial schedule but a major update (0.6) is on the works (due in 3 weeks), including: isk-daemon instances cluster support visual search scope narrowed down by tags major bugs and memory leak fixes POX (POST+XML) API has been removed and will be no longer maintained improved web admin interface The ... http://blog.imgseek.net/2007/05/24/isk-daemon-development-status-ii/ It has actually been online for a few weeks already as I've ironed out some bugs and added new features. Current features are: Searching for visually similar images within a given set of tags or from the entire database, which consists of roughly 25k images from the "interesting" pool. The people are ... http://blog.imgseek.net/2007/05/24/flickr-suggestions-now-online/ I'm a full-time software engineer and part-time comp.sci. MSc. student at PUC-Rio (Brazil). You can also check my personal blog where I've been collecting (for years already!) some random thoughts and (vaguely) interesting things I see or do. http://blog.imgseek.net/2007/05/24/about-me-and-this-blog/ I haven't been able to implement anything and don't plan on working on it until August 2007. Meanwhile, I'll keep the wiki updated and open for contributions. http://blog.imgseek.net/2007/04/01/imgseek-ii-development-status-update/ There has been major updates at the imgSeek II wiki site. The ones I'd like to mention are an initial sketch of the roadmap and some technical details of the current vision I have for the rewrite. Regarding the roadmap, yes, it does seem an amazing amount of work for a ... http://blog.imgseek.net/2007/02/13/imgseek-ii-wiki-updates/ Work on the server-side version of imgSeek (also known as isk-daemon) is going steady but even though the two next releases on the road-map are due this month of January, I believe they may only happen on the beginning of February. http://blog.imgseek.net/2007/01/28/work-on-server-side-version/ I've created a wiki page for hosting all "organized" info regarding the complete rewrite of imgSeek using the Eclipse RCP platform. The idea is to keep using a wiki to manage the project site as it matures and then just making it the main domain for imgseek.net. If somebody wants to ... http://blog.imgseek.net/2006/03/12/welcome/