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International Conference On Knowledge Capture archive
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Knowledge capture table of contents

Whistler, BC, Canada

Pages: 5 - 6

Year of Publication: 2007

ISBN:978-1-59593-643-1

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Luis von Ahn

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

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SIGART: ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Tasks like image recognition are trivial for humans, but continue to challenge even the most sophisticated computer programs. This talk discusses a paradigm for utilizing human processing power to solve problems that computers cannot yet solve. Traditional approaches to solving such problems focus on improving software. I advocate a novel approach: constructively channel human brainpower using computer games. For example, the ESP Game, described in this talk, is an enjoyable online game - many people play over 40 hours a week - and when people play, they help label images on the Web with descriptive keywords. These keywords can be used to significantly improve the accuracy of image search. People play the game not because they want to help, but because they enjoy it.

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	1	Luis von Ahn , Laura Dabbish, Labeling images with a computer game, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, p.319-326, April 24-29, 2004, Vienna, Austria [doi>10.1145/985692.985733]
	2	Luis von Ahn , Ruoran Liu , Manuel Blum, Peekaboom: a game for locating objects in images, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems, April 22-27, 2006, Montréal, Québec, Canada [doi>10.1145/1124772.1124782]