TinEye, a reversed image search engine

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I just found the coolest thing ever.

I'm not sure if it's useful but it sure is nice and I think it's a great example of advanced image recognition.

It's called TinEye and it's a reversed image search engine.

It is possible to upload an image and TinEye will give you (partly) matching images. That means that if you have a shopped file consisting of a few images you might find the original ones.

They have a page, http://tineye.com/cool_searches which shows some cool examples.

What do you think?
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marinaroz · Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:53 am Post subject:

That is kind of cool. I've tried some images that were on my computer, and it did find a lot of matches to the default backgrounds that come with Vista... but that was boring.

Then I went to http://worth1000.com (a site that has photo modification competitions and stuff) and played with some of the pictures from there! Much better. It finds the source pictures like a charm. Awesome Smile

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LP-SolidRaven · Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 6:56 am Post subject:

Yeah it works really well, you can also find the source image of some people their avatars with it Silly

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Xtreme $niper · Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 6:20 pm Post subject:

I think this is actually a really cool idea. I took a look at the demonstration video and I noticed Amber Mac was the one introducing the service. I figured there's a good chance the site is Toronto based, and sure enough, Idee is based in Toronto, Canada. It's nice to be able to support home grown companies, especially when they offer some unique services for the world to use.

I think their index is still a little too small for the images that I tried to look up, but based on the example searches I think the site has big potential to go a long way and to be implemented into a variety of different uses.

Thanks for the heads up!
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spock · Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 2:52 am Post subject:

I still think it's quite nice Silly

I wonder how they store image data so it's searchable/comparable.
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LP-SolidRaven · Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 6:56 am Post subject:

ClickFanatic · Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 2:37 pm Post subject:

According to their site, they create a fingerprint of the image. How this fingerprint is determined is something I am curious about. I know Musicbrainz and Audioscrobbler (Last.fm) do the same thing for music.
All I can guess is that the fingerprint is in some easily comparable format which also allows to match parts of the image.
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Xtreme $niper · Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 3:00 pm Post subject:

I'd imagine it would be a blueprint of pixels in a picture. But then my curiosity would be to ask how they handle that between different sized pictures of the same subject matter.
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LP-SolidRaven · Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 3:10 pm Post subject:

ClickFanatic · Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 4:14 pm Post subject:

That's pretty interesting. Essentially, for people who are not interested in the entire article, this is the basic idea:

Jacky · 3.14159265358979323846264 Joined: 01 Jan 2005 Posts: 4175

I had always hope for such a service, and I do hope Google comes out with their own version (I guess this time someone beat them to it).

For example you could probably grab a picture of George W. Bush, do a TinEye and get parodies of it.
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pharmer4 · Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:43 am Post subject:

doesn't all google services start out made by someone else, and google gobbles them up? (or googles them up).
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