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ArtTrace.

Identify urban art in a photo and show who made it, with honesty about certainty

Who it is for
Those who walk around the city and notice the walls, and the artists who paint the city
Platforms
Web on mobile and desktop; iOS and Android apps in development
Status
In testing
01 / 05

Open air gallery

Open air gallery screen in ArtTrace
Open air gallery
Identify screen in ArtTrace
Identify
Result screen with degree of certainty in ArtTrace
Result with degree of certainty
Give credit screen on ArtTrace
Give credit
Explore screen in ArtTrace
Explore
Features

What
ArtTrace does.

01

Identify

The person sends or takes a photo of the work. The app compares the image with the registered collection and marks the area where the work is on the photo.

The result comes in five bands: unknown, possible authorship, probable authorship, high confidence and verified by a person. Without sufficient evidence, the answer is "We don't know this work yet." The artist's name only comes from the registration, never from AI-generated text.

Confidence is a sum of evidence: visual similarity, geometric fit, location, date, artist registration and photo metadata. Missing signals do not count for or against. Tag and signature reading is not yet turned on.

The location of the photo becomes a neighborhood and the exact point is discarded. Metadata is removed from every saved image.

One touch registers the credit and delivers the ready-made caption and a card with a cut of the work, without metadata.

Whoever uses the image tells where: social network, article or blog, personal use, printing or other. The artist only sees the total, never who used it.

Any amount, by PIX or card, directly to the verified artist and without commission. Photographing the work remains free.

The artist says how he prefers to use the image: free use with credit, support welcome, commercial use with license or agreement with the artist. This appears on the work's public page.

Map of São Paulo with works registered by neighborhood, never by exact address, with filter by category.

Public profile with artistic name, city, specialties and gallery of works. The verified seal is checked by a person, with a code in the Instagram bio.

It shows how many times the work was found, credits, uses, support and the neighborhoods where the art is most commonly found. It never shows who took the photo. The artist registers works with 1 to 20 photos, and a member of the team validates each one.

Uncertain results enter a queue. A person decides with reason, and the decision becomes a label to train the model.

The cash book cannot be altered or deleted: correction is a reversal and every transaction adds up to zero. Every transfer is approved by a person from the financial team.

Sign in with email and password. Users can download the information stored about them and delete their account; their data is removed within 30 days.

In testingAbout the project

ArtTrace status.

It runs locally, with fictional artists and works. Recognition has only been tested with computer-generated works and has not yet been measured on real photos. Support and transfer only work in a test environment, without real money. There is still a need to log in with Google and Apple, push and email notifications, tag reading, legal advice and a beta with artists.

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