Image-Based Queries
Published by Sierra Monica B., on Mar 16 2008, in the categories: News
The good news is that Recogmission has launched the world’s first search engine that finds and displays image results based on image-search queries.
It is called www.picollator.com and allows you to upload any picture you like with a person’s face and it searches over the Internet for all matches, without the need for you to type text queries or rename the picture with specific keywords.
Picollator is in the beta testing phase and user an algorithm for looking inside the image itself to analyze and detect specific objects, processing the faces in the picture and comparing them with the ones found in its database.
The bad news is that the search engine is not finalized and can’t display accurate information yet.
I tried to find pictures by uploading faces with Wentworth Miller aka Michael Scofield from Prison Break TV show, a very popular character known worldwide, Aishwarya Rai Indian actress and the most beautiful woman in the world, as well as two pictures with Bill Gates, but it seems that Picollator has never heard about them.
What i noticed in these pictures that the search engine matched well the position of people in pictures.
There is another company trying to develop a image-based search engine on the Eyealike Visual Search platform and this one is working better than Picollator being able to find many pictures representing famous stars or public faces that look similar with the one in the picture you submit as query.
Eyealike works based on facial recognition and is developed for image detection and video copyright surveillance.
It is continuously improved so that in the near future to become the most powerful search engine working with an algorithm able to find not only accurate image results but also videos, and this will be done by breaking the faces into several elements and identifying common features like eyes, nose, and mouth, and after that to gather data about the orientation and shape of the face, the skin tone, and the color and texture of the hair, the most difficult part being the matching of the skin tones.
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8 Comments on “Image-Based Queries”
Al said on 03/17/2008:
I can see significant differences in those services. Eyelike is just a fun like play-analogia.com or myheritage.com, and I am not quite sure if it will be a search engine. Picollator.com is a search engine not for fun only to find a celebrity. As I can identify they are going to cover image-based as well as text search instead of just comparing specially prepared photo of a Hollywood actor. Let us see...
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Elaina said on 03/17/2008:
Eyealike Visual Search can't find web pages. It's just a database
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Sierra said on 03/17/2008:
Yes it uses a large database with pictures but you can search for faces there so it uses a search engine.
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Elaina said on 03/17/2008:
It's right. However I think it's more difficult to search in the Internet than in any preprocessed database
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Sierra said on 03/17/2008:
I agree..
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maya said on 03/17/2008:
Let's see what happens when Eyelike launches a real time search engine. Now results are good, but they are searching within their database, not the Internet. And it is a big difference to find a matching picture in your little storage, where everything is organized and prepaired, or in the Internet (complete chaos).
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Sierra said on 03/17/2008:
I see the Internet not as a chaos, but as the largest database, and Eyealike has a better searching algorithm...it is something more advanced...complex.
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Picture Search Engine said on 04/18/2008:
[...] far easier and immediate than anything that has been available before." We discussed about the Picollator image-based search engine that’s not working and about the ActiveSymbols search platform that works by comparing your [...]
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