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Flickr was -- and maybe still is -- very useful for the computer vision research community.

by alceufc 11y ago

tedd4u 11y ago
This is old news but we put together a 100M item dataset from Flickr as well, all Creative Commons licensed, including lots of metadata from users as well as some pre-computed features. It's called the YFCC100M. http://yahoolabs.tumblr.com/post/89783581601/one-hundred-million-creative-commons-flickr-images http://yahoolabs.tumblr.com/post/89783581601/one-hundred-mil...
- mapmap 11y ago
  Is a Creative Commons license for research only or can it be used for commercial purposes if you attribute the original author?
TeMPOraL 11y ago
How do they use it? Does it have a good programmatic access? Because UX-side, I'm surprised they still exist. I don't know of a single photo-related web site that has worse UI and is more annoying to use than Flickr.
- Pxtl 11y ago
  It's funny, since Flickr was at the beginning the best of them. Google's PicasaWeb was comparatively bad. Yahoo really let themselves get leapfrogged on that one.
- stass 11y ago
  This is extremely biased. A lot of people, myself included, find it easy and pleasant to use. Honestly, I'm not aware of a single alternative with a better UI/UX -- 500px maybe? As for programmatic access -- Flickr has a good API interface.
  - danieldk 11y ago
    I'm not aware of a single alternative with a better UI/UX I don't use it anymore, but SmugMug.
    - stass 11y ago
      SmugMug is great! It's a little bit different from Flickr though -- SmugMug is more of a personal photo hosting/portfolio website, while Flickr is more about photographers community. I believe the social aspects of Flickr are much more important than it's actual photo storage capabilities!
- PaulHoule 11y ago
  My trouble with the UX is that it is slow, slow, slow. I live in Frontier country and I have DSL, but there are many photo web sites that are faster than flickr. I hardly upload anything to flickr anymore because the interface for that is so slow.
mintplant 11y ago
Flickr is great for finding Creative Commons-licensed images as well.
aswanson 11y ago
Amazing...did not know that. Thanks.

Flickr was -- and maybe still is -- very useful for the computer vision research community.

by alceufc 11y ago

Flickr was -- and maybe still is -- very useful for the computer vision research community.

This is old news but we put together a 100M item dataset from Flickr as well, all Creative Commons licensed, including lots of metadata from users as well as some pre-computed features. It's called the YFCC100M. http://yahoolabs.tumblr.com/post/89783581601/one-hundred-million-creative-commons-flickr-images http://yahoolabs.tumblr.com/post/89783581601/one-hundred-mil...

mapmap 11y ago
Is a Creative Commons license for research only or can it be used for commercial purposes if you attribute the original author?

TeMPOraL 11y ago

How do they use it? Does it have a good programmatic access? Because UX-side, I'm surprised they still exist. I don't know of a single photo-related web site that has worse UI and is more annoying to use than Flickr.

Pxtl 11y ago
It's funny, since Flickr was at the beginning the best of them. Google's PicasaWeb was comparatively bad. Yahoo really let themselves get leapfrogged on that one.
stass 11y ago
This is extremely biased. A lot of people, myself included, find it easy and pleasant to use. Honestly, I'm not aware of a single alternative with a better UI/UX -- 500px maybe? As for programmatic access -- Flickr has a good API interface.
- danieldk 11y ago
  I'm not aware of a single alternative with a better UI/UX I don't use it anymore, but SmugMug.
  - stass 11y ago
    SmugMug is great! It's a little bit different from Flickr though -- SmugMug is more of a personal photo hosting/portfolio website, while Flickr is more about photographers community. I believe the social aspects of Flickr are much more important than it's actual photo storage capabilities!
PaulHoule 11y ago
My trouble with the UX is that it is slow, slow, slow. I live in Frontier country and I have DSL, but there are many photo web sites that are faster than flickr. I hardly upload anything to flickr anymore because the interface for that is so slow.

mintplant 11y ago

Flickr is great for finding Creative Commons-licensed images as well.

aswanson 11y ago

Amazing...did not know that. Thanks.