Descriptive Camera, 2012

created by Matt Richardson

Simply Awesome :)  Master piece in a Real sense..

The Descriptive Camera works a lot like a regular camera—

point it at subject and press the shutter button to 

capture the scene. However, instead of producing 

an image, this prototype outputs a text description of the 

scene. Modern digital cameras capture gobs of parsable 

metadata about photos such as the camera's settings, the 

location of the photo, the date, and time, but they don't 

output any information about the content of the photo. 

The Descriptive Cameraonly outputs the metadata about 

the content.

As we amass an incredible amount of photos, it becomes 

increasingly difficult to manage our collections. Imagine if 

descriptive metadata about each photo could be appended

 to the image on the fly—information about who is in each

 photo, what they're doing, and their environment could 

become incredibly useful in being able to search, filter, and

 cross-reference our photo collections. Of course, we don't 

yet have the technology that makes this a practical 

proposition, but the Descriptive Camera explores these

 possibilities.

More about this @ 

http://mattrichardson.com/Descriptive-Camera/