What to do with the trillions of photos on the Internet?

Development of new approaches to search for photos is now becoming more than a promising direction:

Just because 100 billion images annually.

This contributes to the 750 million mobile phones, purchased, 100 million digital cameras, stretching from the shelves annually. In the near future the same Google plans to include in its index > 1 trillion images.

Company improve text search (Picsearch.com, Facesaerch.com). Others are working with visual queries (as a query image and no text) or try to combine the text and picture (Riya, Picollator.ru).

I work for a company that is engaged in the development solutions for finding pictures on the basis of technologies of pattern recognition. Of course I am very interested in new search engines and demo, classifying or looking for images on the net.

From the latest releases to be the most interesting solution from Idee Labs. This canadian company is developing a system to categorize and find photos.

Idee Inc. has shared to some demos of photos. Demos are working with a closed base, so to say that the company has released a full-fledged search engine photos on the Internet, is not necessary. It's more of a closed solution for photo drains, directories, photos, etc.

the First demo is search photos by color.
How does it work? The user can choose the combination of colors (up to 10), demo looking photos in its database, on which these colors are present.
idee visual image search

Second demo allows you to manipulate the database of photos with the volume 2,823,639 images. It is also a closed base provided with photo Alamy drain.

The photos were processed and grouped by similarity. You choose a picture of the base, the demo also shows you other similar photos.

idee visual image search

Pay attention to the fact that on the website picollator.ru this possibility is also available.
picollator visual image search
Clicking on the Find similar link under the photo, you can see other photos from the database like this. This search engine works with sites from the Internet, not with a closed base.

Demo # 3 — Search for similar photos in the loaded image.
idee visual image search

I uploaded the photo with the word Untitled as you can see, the demo gave me different items, similar in color and texture.

the what does this mean? the Demo does not recognize the objects inside the pictures. Therefore, this solution is hardly suitable for searching photos on the Internet, since we are looking for certain items, certain information about someone or something.

The decision of the company Idee Inc of course will take its place.

To whom it may be interesting?

Designers, searching photos on microstock. And basically, I as a marketer this system can be useful for finding photos for the booklets (and any marketing material), as it is important to maintain color.

the Full article can be read on my blog.
Article based on information from habrahabr.ru

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