Launched another "Shazam for paintings" — app Smartify
ARTinvestment.RU   10 октября 2017

The program for smartphones originally addressed to the visitors of museums have brought the camera — and in a second it will display an extended description and audio file of the audio guide. Convenient!

App Smartify works not only with the originals on the Museum walls, but also with reproductions. It can similarly capture the picture on the monitor screen or on a cardboard card. And it was hard to try to capture the image and to properly hold the phone do not need. The program is usually enough for even a fragment of the filmed shaking hands.

all works well if the "fingerprint" recognizable pattern already managed to make a database of the service. And this is precisely the main problem of all such programs. To add to the database all pictures need a lot of time and large resources, including administration. After all, museums should negotiate. Yes, the team Smartify, perhaps farthest advanced. She has an agreement with 30 museums (including the Hermitage and the Pushkin Museum) and, most importantly, the recently signed agreement with Wikipedia. Now, many of the Museum's work is already recognized and provided with the audio guide. But not all. For example, from the collection of the Pushkin program is still "not know" several Rembrandts, not to mention the works of less famous authors.

This, of course, will come with time. In the long term, of course, it will be much better. It is already possible to set, in an economy a good thing. But, if you don't need guides, and you have a full-fledged computer, search for the picture from Yandex or image Search from Google are today much more efficient.

Vladimir Bogdanov, AI

Source: smartify.org

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