Comments on: Teaching Google To See Images

By: gary price

gary price — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 04:33:25 +0000

One more company that I was just reminded of in this space is piXlogic. They are also doing work in video image recognition. More in this 2003 article: CIA funds development of photo-checking software http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/06/05/1054700310133.html and this 2006 article. http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=2331&trv=1 Direct to piXlogic http://www.pixlogic.com/

By: Nathania Johnson

Nathania Johnson — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 03:11:40 +0000

I’ve used Like.com (by Riya) and I find it to be pretty decent. I think it has huge potential for e-tailers.

By: gary price

gary price — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 01:34:49 +0000

Chris: Here are a few more projects: + LTU Tech http://www.ltutech.com/en/ + Image-Seek Database of Corbis Royalty Free Imagery Using Both Metadata and CBIR http://corbis.ltutech.com/ Also, LTU presentations from the 2003 and 2004 Search Engine Meeting provide excellent intros to CBIR: + Organising personal pictures with content analysis technology From the 2004 meeting. PDF file. http://www.infonortics.com/searchengines/sh04/slides/ltu.pdf + Finding the Right Image in the Corbis Collection From the 2003 meeting. PDF file. http://www.infonortics.com/searchengines/sh03/slides/nastar-2003.pdf + xcavator from Cognisign http://www.cognisign.com/ http://www.xcavator.net/ + Freenet.de (in German, use your fave mechanical translation software) http://www.freenet.de/suche/index.html?search_type=picture&adv=1 The first options allows you to limit to images with specific words "in the image." The third, to images with a human face. + Photo2Search from Microsoft Cameraphone searching and content image retrieval http://preview.tinyurl.com/qcqtc + Vima Technologies http://www.vimatech.com/ Demos here http://www.mediabakery.com/ Look for the "eye" icon below image. Also, here: http://www.danitadelimont.com/search.asp Cydral (Coming Soon?) http://www.cydral.com/

By: Silver

Silver — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 23:39:33 +0000

One aspect worth mentioning would be that Google’s Image Labeler program could easily be used to provide the data necessary to train the system in this Supervised Multiclass Labeling method.

While SML couldn’t really be used for huge numbers of images in real-time for searching, it could be used to process images over time in order to build up the metadata to associate with the images — providing a rich new source of keyword content.

So, the potential for this to begin functioning for Google’s Image Search is actually quite high.