danvk.org » Generating Training Data

As you may remember from a previous post, I've been doing some work with a collection of old images. A key part of developing any heuristic algorithm like this one is to get some training data. You find the correct answer by hand for some fraction of the data, then judge your program by seeing how its results compare to the "golden" data. You could generate this sort of data by hand using a photo inspector and a text editor. But it would be tremendously tedious.