Labeling images with a computer game Export

@inproceedings{ahnl:04, abstract = {We introduce a new interactive system: a game that is fun and can be used to create valuable output. When people play the game they help determine the contents of images by providing meaningful labels for them. If the game is played as much as popular online games, we estimate that most images on the Web can be labeled in a few months. Having proper labels associated with each image on the Web would allow for more accurate image search, improve the accessibility of sites (by providing descriptions of images to visually impaired individuals), and help users block inappropriate images. Our system makes a significant contribution because of its valuable output and because of the way it addresses the image-labeling problem. Rather than using computer vision techniques, which don't work well enough, we encourage people to do the work by taking advantage of their desire to be entertained.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {von Ahn, Luis and Dabbish, Laura}, booktitle = {CHI '04: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems}, citeulike-article-id = {1314963}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=985733}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/985692.985733}, doi = {10.1145/985692.985733}, isbn = {1-58113-702-8}, keywords = {collaboration, collaborative-communities, collaborative-tagging, internet, online-communities}, location = {Vienna, Austria}, pages = {319--326}, posted-at = {2007-10-06 16:17:39}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Labeling images with a computer game}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/985692.985733}, year = {2004} }

TY - CONF ID - ahnl:04 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1314963 N2 - We introduce a new interactive system: a game that is fun and can be used to create valuable output. When people play the game they help determine the contents of images by providing meaningful labels for them. If the game is played as much as popular online games, we estimate that most images on the Web can be labeled in a few months. Having proper labels associated with each image on the Web would allow for more accurate image search, improve the accessibility of sites (by providing descriptions of images to visually impaired individuals), and help users block inappropriate images. Our system makes a significant contribution because of its valuable output and because of the way it addresses the image-labeling problem. Rather than using computer vision techniques, which don't work well enough, we encourage people to do the work by taking advantage of their desire to be entertained. CY - Vienna, Austria SN - 1-58113-702-8 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 326 TI - Labeling images with a computer game PB - ACM T2 - CHI '04: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems SP - 319 KW - collaboration KW - collaborative-communities KW - collaborative-tagging KW - internet KW - online-communities AU - von Ahn, Luis AU - Dabbish, Laura PY - 2004/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/985692.985733 ER -