Earlier in the week we told you about our fantastic Twombly/Poussin iPad apps (available to download now!) We also revealed that an iPhone app for the same exhibition is on the way. Today, we want to give you a sneak preview of the iPhone app’s incredible functionality: fine art image recognition.
You may have read about the possibilities of our image recognition technology when we were featured in Wired earlier in the year:
Suddenly, art is searchable: hold your phone’s camera up to, say, one of Monet’s oils of Rouen cathedral, and Artfinder’s free image-recognition app can pull together information about that picture.
Hopefully we’ll get to Monet further down the line (watch this space!) For now, check out the video below that we shot at Dulwich Picture Gallery, showing the app being tested in the wild for the first time.
Image recognition technology is great, and what this app has achieved is incredible. But I can’t help feeling that putting a device between you and the artwork to find out information will somehow detract from the experience of simply enjoying the art you stand before. Although one way I could see this being useful is to ‘bookmark’ art or artists you enjoy so you can learn more at your leisure.
This is so true, a painting needs to be looked at in its original form to much info can detract, though usefull to know later perhaps
Hate to say this, but have you seen http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/#text