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Valued Member
South Africa
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To get away from the drudgery and monotony of writing commercial software, I wanted to write something with numismatics in mind..
a sort of image processing web application where users could upload coins they need identification for and it would basically identify the coin.
Once the user uploads the coin, they would have to indicate where the date is, and circle any visible lettering and other identifiable features and the software would search through the database and give the best match for the coin.. sort of like the google image search but a lot more refined..
Now, I dont know if such an application exists.. so basically my question is would it be worth developing?
I, personally find coin attribution one of the best parts of collecting.. I wouldnt want to just upload a scan and immediately know what coin it is.. the journey always feels more fulfilling.. I joined this forum because I needed someone to identify a coin for me.
What do you think?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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There are so many different types of programs today for coinage. Same for photographing coins. And there is a massive amount of books, pamphlets, magazines on coins. And the same with on line coin dealers. Even if you look you would find more and more TPGS's popping up all the time.
Not meaning to be pessimistic but if you did make such a program, where would it be? Who would know about it? Would there be a charge for it?
If you looked into the Search tab above and looked for coin type programs, you would find possibly more than you think. But like many things today, they all slowly fade into this thing called the internet somewhere.
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Valued Member
 South Africa
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point taken carl, it would be open source if I do end up developing it. ah well..
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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I guess there is quite a large amount of work establishing a data base of reasonable size to narrow down the options that would be presented.
Your bit to provide some charity to the anonymous recipients!
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Valued Member
United States
275 Posts |
On the upper end the grading of coins is so subjective and then there is the problem with user images. The photos are so varied due to equipment and lighting it would be hard to allow for these things. Cleaned coins are another obstacle.
Your task is daunting but I think it is doable. Keep up the good work
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Pillar of the Community
United States
863 Posts |
google has a app called google goggels and it is supposed to tell you about what it sees in the picture. it would be really cool if something could be done like this for coins
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Valued Member
United States
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I am intrigued by the technology that would be used for this. I used to develop LONG ago (think COBOL) and now am on the data center side of things. What technologies would be employed for something like this?
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Moderator
 United States
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google has a app called google goggels and it is supposed to tell you about what it sees in the picture. it would be really cool if something could be done like this for coins It is a fun app. It works great for logos and other trademarked images, not so good for everyday objects. But some day...  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm in the middle of implementing coin identification support into Numismetrica. It's going to be a combination of neural network processing to narrow it down, but ultimately rests upon human eyes for the final verdict. Auto identification can only go so far, even with complex AI techniques.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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The main problem with almost anything for coins today is there is just to many on line, magazines, books, panphlets, etc. This is why so many questions about coins on this and many other web sites. No one knows where to find anything anymore. And when they do, again, to many. A new article, program, web site, etc. is just one of so many. Coin collecting today has grown to the almost to excessive amount of places for information. Even the amount of coin shows and stores is growing. We have 4 coin shows within about 15 miles of me every Month, all year long.
I would think almost any new program would be lost in all this today.
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South Africa
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Posted 06/19/2012 10:31 am
