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Dear HighNooner,
I am a researcher at XEROX’s Research Center Europe in Grenoble France. Here in Grenoble, we are researching methods for automatically assessing the quality and aesthetics of photographs (please see link here). We hope to use these assessments to create photo albums, catalogs, or other similar products.
We believe that the information found on www.dpchallenge.com, in particular the average scores associated with a specific photograph for a given challenge, can be very useful for helping us understand how people judge an image. We would like to collect and use this information in our research in two ways:
First, we would like to collect photographs submitted to a challenge and process them together with their associated data (such as their average scores) in order to train and test image assessment algorithms.
Second, we would like to include these photographs and their associated data in a data set that we are trying to assemble for use in benchmarking image analysis algorithms. Once fully assembled, we would like to distribute the dataset to members in the image analysis research community for use in their own research.
Such a benchmarking tool would help our research community to assess the overall progress of the different image analysis methods that are being developed.
We would like to include the photos you have submitted to www.dpchallenge.com in this dataset. As such, I was wondering if you would be so kind as to give your consent to such terms of use.
Thanks very much indeed!
Naila Murray |
