Comments on: Whileseated Vs. World’s Best Street Photography Robot

By: Madison Guy

Madison Guy — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:04:22 +0000

Interesting concept and competition. Congrats on the human victory, MDM, holding the line against the robot onslaught — for th etime being…

But we’re in the early stages — sort of like the first computerized chess demos in which the grandmasters trounced the robots a few decades back. Not so easy now.

Now that point and shoot cameras are boasting face recognition technology, a little tweaking will probably give the little devils some spooky seeming skill sets one of these days. The wonders of technology…

By: Nils

Nils — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 19:59:58 +0000

Funny, Round 4: Google almost delivered a knockout there. Nice idea.

By: jon

jon — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:31:27 +0000

as soon as i saw this:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/2bdtha

i thought “man mdm *has* to have written about street view, or better soon”

By: Tim Connor

Tim Connor — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:04:21 +0000

Neat stuff. I used to fantasize about walking around & blinking my eyes to take a picture but that meant having to be there.

By: Lara Wechsler

Lara Wechsler — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 02:46:21 +0000

Interesting, I am waiting for remote control cameras where I can fly my camera around like a model airplane while sitting in my apartment staring at an LCD screen able to press the remote when i want it too snap a photo. Maybe they will have that ready available when I am immobile so I can still shoot.

By: Bill Compton

Bill Compton — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:23:21 +0000

Hi Jim. Photos i received. Thanks

By: Michael David Murphy

Michael David Murphy — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:47:42 +0000

dee - mousing around noflashcorner is lots of fun, from afar. i can almost smell the leather. the whole corner smells like leather, thanks to Coach.

along - i hadn’t seen that checkerboard sweater. awesome! at first, i was just going to post interesting street shots i’d found in street views, but scrolling through all that stuff hoping to find something was maddening.

By: Michael David Murphy

Michael David Murphy — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 04:47:55 +0000

tb, that shark quote reminds me of a film I once saw comprised entirely of security camera footage from Berlin. The edit was thrilling. Completely boring, with sharp, insane moments of terror every once in awhile - bank robberies and the like. But you had to sit through 20 minutes of nothingness to get there.

A camera that’s on all the time will eventually record something interesting. A camera that’s on once, but everywhere (the google example) will find something interesting, too, eventually.

By: Robert Wright

Robert Wright — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 03:29:21 +0000

Stephen Shore talked at B&N a while back about a researcher he had been talking to, doing research into A.I. kinds of things, and they were trying to get a robot to recognize features in a landscape, so they needed some “pictures” of landscapes, so to be scientific, they set up some kind of random robot camera to make “pictures”, but they were no help in teaching the AI anything-they were too haphazard, so that’s how Shore got involved, they used some of his street scenes to teach the robot how to see. Same idea. BTW, robot is showing some chops in round 4…but it was overmatched from the beginning…

By: toong_bo

toong_bo — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 01:28:34 +0000

“The reader can demonstrate the point by clicking off a roll with the family Instamatic or Leica without moving from his chair: point the machine at random this way and that, quickly and without thought. When the film is developed every frame will define a subject different from any defined before. To make matters worse, some of the pictures are likely to be marginally interesting. Even the automatic cameras that record the comings and goings in banks describe facts and relationships that surprise mere eye-witnesses.”

-John Szarkowski