[access-uk] DIY 'Descriptive Camera' captures images, prints out prose -- Engadget

Interesting, although the description examples are a bit mundane and vague but 
I guess it's in the eye of the beholder.
a project  that could be turned in to something of use with a bit of help to 
turn it in to speech.


http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/25/diy-descriptive-camera-captures-images-prints-out-prose/

DIY 'Descriptive Camera' captures images, prints out prose



Have you ever wished that cameras could capture not only an image of the scene 
in front of them, but also describe it to you in plain English? Ok, what if it 
bypassed the whole "photo" thing and just spit out a slip of paper with words 
on it? Well, if you're still interested, the impressive Matt Richardson (of 
Make fame) has a project right up your alley. The Descriptive Camera is a 
relatively simple device really. A Logitech webcam is connected to a BeagleBone 
dev board, which is in turn plugged into a thermal printer from Adafruit. 
Obviously, the tech required to analyze a scene recognize the objects then 
convert that pile of pixels into a slice prose is outside of the budget and 
capability of your average DIY project. So Matt turned instead to Mechanical 
Turk, Amazon's marketplace for HITs or Human Intelligence Tasks. Images 
captured by the cam are uploaded via the BeagleBone, where an actual person 
describes what he or she sees and the resulting literature is printed out. For 
more details and images check out the source.

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