cazalea
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Watch buying with Image Search Using AN IMAGE!
I want to alert the (one or two) PuristS who occasionally search for a watch of their dreams that Google now allows you to search for a picture USING a picture instead of text.
But don't sell all your Silbersteins to get Google stock yet, because this is what it returns from a search:
Not so good for a watch collector but fine if you prefer frilly china plates and things!
Now if I add the word PIKTO (I chose this watch for its unusual, unambiguous name) the result is much better:
but look what happens when I use a picture of a Rolex Sub without explanatory text or file name. Google figures out that it's a Rolex Submariner and fills in the text search field itself.
Soon there will be no mysteries left, and no deals for those of us afflicted with the WIS disease.
Cazalea
(text colored only for legibility in-between pictures)
This message has been edited by cazalea on 2011-06-15 14:29:03
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Watch buying with Image Search Using AN IMAGE!
I want to alert the (one or two) PuristS who occasionally search for a watch of their dreams that Google now allows you to search for a picture USING a picture instead of text. But don't sell all your Silbersteins to get Google stock yet, because this is ...
No mysteries...
One of my fav. sci-fi writers, William Gibson, in Wired magazine (1999!): The idea of the Collectible is everywhere today, and sometimes strikes me as some desperate instinctive reconfiguring of the postindustrial flow, some basic mammalian response to th...
Ahh - what if you used a picture of a 'Kingston' watch?
To explain to some folks, the Kingston watch "looks" like a Rolex....er....some call it a hommage. hmmm. But it does not have the word 'Rolex' anywhere on it so it is not a "fake" or "replica". I wonder if the photo recogntion program can find Rolexes or ...
I bet you get a bunch of Rolexes when you run the search!
There are way more Rolexes out there than Kingstons, I imagine. Daos
I was questioning the discrimination algorithm
......if it could distinguish between the Rolex and Kingston brand logo on the dial. Or solely on the case shape recognition points. Regards, MTF
Interesting...I wonder what would happen...
If somone ran a search with their own picture; would one find close twins across the world? Interesting technology - thanks for the post.
terrifying result - if these are my twins, I want off this planet
I chose a nice mug shot of someone with little else to distract the search engine. It appears that color is a predominant factor in the results. I tried another face (selected at random) with not as much contrast in the color. Again the backgrounds seem t...
Indeed - the technology needs some work
However it is great that this technology exists and will now steadily improve. My wife expressed some glee that when I tried this with my face, that some potatoes and rear-ends made it into the mix. All the best!
Thank goodness, Andrew !
There's reasons I live on the opposite side of the world to most of mine...! ;-)
You could also try tineye
"TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions". www.tineye.com Regards, Richard.
Interesting concept....
Tried searching for my Linde Werdelin: Then tried searching with my car: And finally my dog: I suspect Google may want to refine this a little more....