Visual Journal(ism) - Region 1

The U.K company Imense - which specializes in image recognition and retrieval software - rolled out a new keyword tagging product called Annotator. Company states that “depending on the type of images you shoot, your keywording time will be reduced by 40-75%.”

Associative keywording, creating a CSV to send to your distribution agent, output keywords, up-to-the-minute tag trends, computer vision technology. Company packs a lot of info into three Q+A videos. But I’ll listen because I am a big fan of streamlining production. The vision technology is similar to iPhoto’s face recognition. Upload an image and basic keyword terms are auto added - outside, people, etc.

-Sarah Evans.