Snipetag, online game with the purpose

Imagine an ideal world where humans solve some problems and computers solve other problems. …and they both live in harmony. Does it sounds like Matrix? Maybe, but I think it is one of the directions in which web applications will evolve in the near future.

Technology develops and improves with the speed of light. Each year more and more research is done in the area of artificial intelligence, computer vision or pattern recognition. Unfortunately, there are still a lot of tasks that computers cannot solve yet and there is a huge need for human processing power.

Humans can identify objects in a photo or video much more effectively than computers. Humans can transcribe and translate podcasts, identify emotions, fill in questionnaires on a variety of topics. Still only humans can write valuable reviews and blog posts. Machines are not intelligent enough. At least not now.

A few months ago, inspired by work of Luis Van Ahn, I decided to build a game where as people play and have fun they help to solve one of the current challenges in the area of computer vision and content based information retrieval. They help to build a better world.

Snipetag is game with the purpose! The goal of the game is to retrieve semantics from images and gather data they will contribute to the research in the area of machine recognition of objects in the web of photos. All data will be available for free to any researcher whose work, research could benefit from it.

Don’t forget the most important thing! Each game you play helps a small, friendly alien lost on the Earth. Here is the story of Thomaso Marsjano.

Have fun and help to build a better world!

Ahhh… I build this application after hours, so please forgive me bugs. If you find an issue that has to be fixed please don’t hesitate to send me an email. I will fix it. Snipetag is one of my experiments and is now in BETA mode.