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Over the in the last year, we have made a number of additions to the site, including the Story Picturing Engine. The API is ready. But because of the tightness of funding (remember that this is a non-profit academic project with an extremely limited budget and equipment support), we cannot release the XML API to the general public, or our machines will risk down time. While we are collecting a lot of training data with the site, we are trying hard to figure out how best to utilize the data to further train alipr. We want to do it right, but good science does take time.

The site is apparently ranked the highest for Google search phrases like “automatic image tagging” and “image search research”. If you like our concept, please encourage your friends to try out this site. The more people involved in helping alipr, the better she will be able to help us in the future.

Thanks and have a great year!

James

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James Z. Wang
Visiting Professor
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/people/wang_james.html

As many of you frequent visitors must be aware of, we try to keep adding features every week. You might have noticed a slight lag in the last week or so and you clever users probably realized something big is coming. In the next week we are releasing a public API to upload images to ALIPR. You will be able to make http requests that will basically duplicate the functionality of the url ALIPR function on the main page. We envision people writing software so that when you upload a picture to your personal photo album, it can be auto tagged.

Moving forward we would like to see many more APIs that will duplicate the functionality you see on alipr.com. We would like to hear from you which functionality we should prioritize and what applications you would like to use them for. Please post your comments below with suggestions.

Thank you,

Walter Weiss

We have just started a blog for ALIPR. In the future, we will have articles from core technology developers and team members. You are also welcome to post comments and constructive suggestions to help us to better develop the site. We will also keep you up to date on new features made available and new initiatives. Our goal is to continue to advance science and to develop a useful image search engine for the Internet public. Please let us know how you feel about the current system.

Happy holidays,

James