Crowdsourcing Tagging
Magnum is working with Tagasauris to crowdsource the tagging of Magnum's digital archive. The project allows volunteers to get early access to the (untagged) photo archive, and provide descriptive tags to the images.
A notable accomplishment of this effort was the discovery of a set of "lost" photos in the Magnum archive, from the shooting of the movie American Graffiti, achieved through a combination of human tagging and machine intelligence: The crowdsourcing identified the individuals in the photos (e.g., George Lucas, Ron Howard, Richard Dreyfuss, and Mackenzie Phillips, shown in separate photos from one shooting), but then the underlying machine process connected these together to see what is common among them. The film American Graffiti was one of the suggestions. Tagasauris found nearly two dozen previously 'lost' photos taken on the film’s set that were available (but not discoverable) in the Magnum archive. "Computers couldn’t ID humans in the photo but humans couldn’t know the context."
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