“ Being hand-drawn, each piece is different, even when the same design is drawn by the same person, so Jain’s system identifies key points in the design that remain more-or-less consistent. And since a gang’s graffiti often incorporates its name or other identifying words, he uses crowdsourcing to identify those words, asking the human workers of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service to decipher any text in the images.”
A computer scientist at Michigan State is developing a system for identifying and attributing graffiti, reports New Scientist.
The tag as a Captcha, which is translated into a check-in so it may be visualized with a map, illustrating a tagger’s history.
Source: newscientist.com
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