Tag Archives: image search

Starting my tagging study!

So I’m starting my study of tagging, and searching with keywords.  Image search has lots of really interesting nuanced problems, but the ones that interest me involve the language of the image “tag”. If you’re interested in participating, take a look at my little recruitment page: http://grabka.org/internet/flickrsearchtagging/ It’s a multi-step process that starts with you …

August 21, 2008 – 00:32 | By dariusz | Posted in Masters Research | Tagged , , , | View Comments

How Google is advancing the state of image search

If you’re interested in the state of the art of large domain (internet) image search, then undoubtedly Google comes up over and over again. Google Image Search, with its simple interface and reasonable results, is the de-facto consumer-grade image search engine. Offerings from competitors are actually a little more feature rich, especially the MSN Live …

April 30, 2008 – 22:11 | By dariusz | Posted in User Experience | Tagged , , | View Comments

Defining the human context for search and retrieval.

I’m trying to wrap my head around all of the information I’m reading about image search. Search, retrieval, information, data, all of these terms are loaded, and used differently depending on whether I’m reading an HCI paper, a text analysis paper, or a blog post about search engine optimisation (SEO). In hopes of simplifying things, …

March 27, 2008 – 17:22 | By dariusz | Posted in Masters Research | Tagged , | View Comments

Settling on a Research Topic

To be perfectly honest, I was admittied into my Masters program with zero funding. In retrospect, starting a two year+ project with no guaranteed income wasn’t the greatest idea, for a variety of reasons. First, every semester I hope/pray to get a Graduate Teaching Assistant job, which luckily gets easier and easier as I accumulate …

February 29, 2008 – 15:42 | By dariusz | Posted in Masters Research | Tagged , , | View Comments