Acquine, the ‘Aesthetic Quality Inference Engine’ is an automated site that promises ‘Instant Impersonal Assessment of Photo Aesthetics’.
Designed to ‘mainly to assess the aesthetic quality of color natural professional photographs’, Acquine is not designed for assessing ‘photos of industrial products, advertisement images, casual family photos, figures in publications, out-of-focus shots, political photos, etc.’
The documentation adds ‘At the moment, Acquine cannot understand the great complexity of our human society and should not be used for assessing photos with a lot of cultural meanings.’
Nadia is a speculative camera concept by Andrew Kupresanin. Intended to use the rating system developed with Acquine, Kupresanin’s concept is about pushing the boundaries of what we want smart devices to do. ‘Currently under development, we will soon see devices and systems that have the ability to think creatively and infer beauty. As this novel technology improves and works its way into consumer devices, what effect will it have on individual preference and our creative process? Will new objects and possibilities arise?’
This kind of ‘creative automation’ is gaining pace. Sony’s smile-sensing cameras have been around for several years, and the feature is now widespread. Some Canon’s now have a ‘wink self-timer‘ mode that activates the shutter for self portraits by sensing facial gestures. And Casio’s latest range of compacts boasts a make-up mode, that smooths away wrinkles and adds a spot of blusher. Where next? A new generation of cameras (the Canon Wonder?) that’ll slice still images from a constant stream of HD video, picked according to qualities like Flickr interesting-ness, for example.
ha ha thats all very good but do you really want the camera to choose your shots for you ???
((the Canon Wonder?) that’ll slice still images from a constant stream of HD video, picked according to qualities like Flickr interesting-ness, for example.)????????
Obviously it doesn't understand humor as stated in the sentence quoted above: ‘At the moment, Acquine cannot understand the great complexity of our human society and should not be used for assessing photos with a lot of cultural meanings.’
I uploaded a bunch of my pictures at random and found the range of ratings startling. I got 1 good score, a couple ok and some were just terrible. And yet I thought my terrible ones were very similar to ones on the website that had very high marks. I decided not to do any more. It was too tough on my ego.
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((the Canon Wonder?) that’ll slice still images from a constant stream of HD video, picked according to qualities like Flickr interesting-ness, for example.)????????
also can a Aesthetic Quality Inference Engine’ understand humor http://365project.org/simonarmstrong/365/2010-05-07