Is an Intelligent Photo Search Possible?
February 10, 2015
Microsoft is doing its best to maintain relevancy in the technology market. Its rivals, Google and Apple, are eating up all the customers and smacking their lips at the deliciousness of their success. Microsoft has not given up the battle and according to PC World, “Microsoft One Drive Adds Super-Intellifenct Searching Of Document Text, Photos.” OneDrive is Microsoft’s cloud service and it has been upgraded to include Microsoft Research and Bing techniques to examine, tag, and analyze photos aka intelligent photo search.
Once photos are uploaded into OneDrive they will be scanned by OCR to gather information and apply tags. This feature is part of Microsoft’s new automated image recognition technology. Microsoft will also make the cloud easier to use:
“Microsoft also will make it easier to actually get your photos into the cloud through a new “Camera Imports” folder, which will be rolling out over the next month. Once you connect a camera or USB stick to your Windows 7 or 8 computer, photos will be automatically siphoned off and stored in Microsoft’s cloud. Likewise, if you snap a screenshot on a Windows 7 or Windows 8 machine, it too will be stored in OneDrive—a feature that’s already in Windows Phone today.”
The Internet has always been a visual medium, but accessibility of cameras has increased that and people want to organize and find their photos like they can their text files. Good move, Microsoft.
Whitney Grace, February 10, 2014
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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