Share Your Sweets by Google Crowdsource

Celebrate your Indian cuisine, by uploading images to the Crowdsource App, while having fun.

Join the amazing #GoogleCrowdsource Share Your Sweets campaign to help Google in recognizing the Indian sweets that power their products like Google Lens. Read this blog to find out more about the campaign and how you can take part in it by using the Crowdsource app’s Image Capture task at your local sweets.

What is the Share Your Sweets — Campaign?

The campaign’s overall idea is that Crowdsource lacks images of various Indian sweets. Because of this, Google Lens has difficulty understanding desserts like “Malpua” and “Motichoor Ladoos.” In addition, there are other regionally distinct sweets that are unknown to many people. During the celebration of Diwali, when we know everyone may acquire a variety of sweets at their houses, we came up with the Share Your Sweets Campaign to address this and bring the varied communities of the Indian Subcontinent together.

Who can Participate?

• Android users (since this task is available only on the Crowdsource app on Play Store)
• Anyone who can contribute — Indian Sweets.
• Anyone who is at least 18 years of age.

If you fulfill the above criteria, this campaign is for you.

How to Participate?

Google Crowdsource application will look more like Gameified and not challenging to use even for a non-technical person. Anyone can participate in this Campaign.

• Step 1: Download the Google Crowdsource application from Play Store(not available on ios).
• Step 2: Fill out this Share Your Script — Sign-up form https://bit.ly/GCS_ShareYourSweets (*without editing* the pre-filled name in the link), you are in.

• Step 3: Contribute to the Image Capture task on the Crowdsource app (Check Steps To Contribute — Given Below) across a period of 15-days (Oct 24, 2022 —Nov 7, 2022); participate in campaign meet-ups and other activities

Sign up form will be live till campaign end**. The campaign ends by Nov 7, 2022.

Winning Criteria:

• Contributors globally receive a certificate of contribution. A minimum of 50 contributions are needed to enter the challenge.

All contributions will be subject to quality check and the final decision will be made at the direction of the crowdsource team.

Steps To Contribute :

• Step 1: Register for Campaign, if you haven’t yet. https://bit.ly/GCS_ShareYourSweets (*without editing* the pre-filled name in the link). If you don’t sign up for the campaign, your data might not count.
• Step 2: Download the Google Crowdsource app
• Step 3:Open Image Capture Task in Crowdsource app (Make sure that you have chosen registered mail id).
• Step 4: You can upload pictures of Indian Sweets that you already have, or take a new picture and upload it to the Image Capture task on the Crowdsource app.
• Step 5: Check that the sweet can be seen properly in the image and that the background is free of distracting objects.
• Step 6: Each photo should only contain one sort of sweet item. For instance, if you are taking a picture of a ragulla, only ragullas should be in the picture; ragullas and gulab jamuns should not be in the same picture.
• Step 7: When you upload images on Image Capture, do label them properly with the proper format as given below -

i) sod (to be written only in English)

ii) (can be written in any script like English, Hindi, Tamil, or any other Indian Language)

• Step 7: Enable your contributions to Open Source

• Step 8: A single contribution will be considered to be one image of one sweet captured from various angles and uploaded separately; multiple contributions will result in exclusion from the campaign.

From the people to the people. Open Source your contributions to enable the whole developer and research community to advance the state of the art of technology, with diversity in mind.

How to enable; or disable your contributions to Open Source?

Open Source your images — Open Source your contributions to enable the whole developer and research community to advance the state art of technology. Go to Crowdsource settings > Open Source > Image capture and turn it on.

If you want to disable Open source, go to the left side of the screen and select settings, then disable the toggle button.

⭐Prioritize: quality and privacy

As always, the quality of your contributions is very important. Please contribute images that are not blurred and the sweet can be seen properly in the image. Make sure that no sensitive or personally identifiable information is captured in the images in the background.

Start Contributing now..!!

Use #GoogleCrowdsource #ShareYourSweets #GoogleLens on social media. Invite your friends and family to participate by sharing this blog with them. Looking forward to seeing you soon and ending this campaign on a high note! If you have any queries drop them in the comments section.

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