Linked List : Annotating Photos for Humans and Machines

Photos taken on a mobile phone can include metadata. I like it for various reasons. My various projects depend on metadata, such as date, location, orientation, etc. But more and more, the phones are removing that metadata when I transmit it. Some of them also change the file name. But I care, and I want them. It’s a carefully considered call. In response to these aggressive moves by the platforms, I have started adding the data directly to the visible part of the image, like how your old film camera would add the date/time directly onto the photo itself. There is no danger of losing that information. As long as I have the picture, I have the date/time it was taken. Gummalapuram Branch P.O Similarly, now, when I take certain pictures, I add text directly to the bottom-right corner, usually in English. I am making sure it has good contrast so humans and OCRs can pick it up easily. I have scripts to extract this data easily if I want to process it. Of course, any cheap visual model can…