AutoCaption

Inspiration

Having a cool picture isn’t enough when posting on Facebook and Instagram. The caption on the picture makes or breaks the post. If you have ever struggled coming up with a witty joke, perfect quote, or funny song lyric for your picture, autoCaption.co was made with love for you.

How It Works

We use IBM BlueMix Watson Image Recognition API as well as Imagga API to detect objects in uploaded pictures to our platform. Based on these tags, we use AWS Cloud Search to implement fuzzy search through our custom database of hip hop lyrics, funny quotes, and one liners scraped from the funniest places on the internet. Our core value is providing results a search on Google can’t: by using innovative tagging and synonym finding on our corpus of captions, we surface results Google can’t.

With autoCaption.co, you get the perfect caption. Every time.

Built With

Submitted to

PennApps XII
- Winner Best use of Amazon Web Services

Created by

I worked primarily on the Django backend. I integrated the image recognition functionality by weighing both Imagga and IBM Bluemix API results. I integrated with AWS Cloud Search and developed the file storage system. I also did some work on the site's CSS.

Mario Sukkar
I developed the high-level idea with Nipun and designed the page layouts to be elegant and streamlined. I then worked closely with Revanth to implement the designs and features, focusing on Javascript interactions, integration with our back-end, and CSS.

Kienan Adams
I worked on both the back-end and front-end design of the project, focusing on the interface, user experience and basic functionality (i.e. File Upload, Theme, Retrieving and Visualizing Captions, etc.).

Revanth Kolli
I came up with the original idea for the hack and did the high level design of features which we would need to implement as a group. I scraped all the quotes, puns, etc. with Python. I set up and tuned the search process using AWS Cloud Search. I also marketed the app after the hackathon to get traction.

Nipun Singh

Updates

Kienan Adams started this project — Sep 06, 2015 08:08 AM EDT

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