They should at least give this as an option. I do believe the desktop is where it can have a bigger impact on the individual user and therefore be worth quite a lot.

http://www.rese...ibm.com/marvel/

Riya sounds cool but like everyone said before, do we need another image sharing application? Plus how hard is it to just write a couple of tags for an image?

This implies, Riya will not work on most images on the web because the majority of images on the web are low resolution and do not have any EXIF details.

So, this is not a tool Google/Yahoo will be able to use to tag all images on the web.

if u have build vision system, why dont u team up with riya…

i am looking for reasons for not going on google for everything….

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That totally sweet Riya service that I blogged a while back has gone into …

The naive consumer who uses an application that is enhanced to work on faces will expect the application to work on everything, but machine vision engineering doesn’t scale that way. If “um, I know it auto-tags X and Y, but can it auto-tag A B and C?” gets answers like “Smart men are working on the problem. Smart men.” for more than a few months, you’ll have a disappointed consumer after a year.

I do not see that much overhyping at blog.riya.com, but because it is easy to imagine what is possible (servers that can automatically describe/tag any picture), people will think its like rolling out another vertical. But its not.

When you see a technology that autotags any image from images.google.com, you know you have something that is actually scales for consumer photos. The demo will be: give us a img src url, we’ll guess what it is. (No “network effects” or Mechanical Turks needed, the training data is on images.google.com itself)

That is not Riya’s demo. For obvious reasons, Riya is going to work the “Smart men are working on the problem. Smart men.” line for as long as they can. But that doesn’t mean you should see a horse with a few stripes painted on it as a zebra.

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Requesting an acquisition? That really sounds strange and show how little you know of the technology itself. I’ll recommend you read up some stuff before making such statements…I guess you want to continue to loose credibility.

Yahoo really really sucks, why them?

Riya only recognizes faces, not objects. There are a few other companies out there that do full object recognition, which is quite different, and in my opinion, much more valuable for image search. When I search for images of an “apple” on Google/Yahoo/MSN image search, the results are usually much worse than when I search for a person’s name.

Also, maybe you guys should use it first before “recommending” it be acquired.