Google Lens coming to YouTube Shorts
Google said that during the beta period, there won't be any ads.
Topic: Content-based image retrieval
How Pinterest has developed computer-vision technology to power visual search for users and brands
Pinterest has been developing computer vision technology since 2014 and is now applying it to visual search queries and ad targeting.
Bing Visual Search lets you search specific objects within images
Bing joins Google, Pinterest and others in upgrading its image search capabilities.
Flickr’s new ‘similarity search’ feature makes it easier to find visually similar photos
Flickr says its new search option uses advanced technology to surface similar photos without much work on the user's end.
Bing app for iOS brings image-based searching to iPhones
Image search feature has potential to be quite useful, but needs improvement.
Wolfram Alpha Launches Image Identification Search Engine
Wolfram Alpha does image search the Wolfram way, but showing entity data around the image as they interpret it.
Bing Shares How Image Search Algorithm Works; Says 59% Of Web Images Have Duplicates
Want to understand how Bing ranks and shows data on images within Bing Image search?
“My Photos” — Google Now Lets Find Your Google+ Photos Within Search
Google now lets you search your private photos and the photos your friends on Google+ share with you. All you need to do is search on Google for keywords such as [my photos] or [my photos sunset] to bring up matching photos. You can even search for your friend’s photos such as [danny’s photos sunset] or […]
Baidu Testing Facial Recognition Search; Similar To Google’s “Search By Image”
The most popular search engine in China, Baidu, is reportedly working on a new image search feature for facial recognition. Searchers can upload an image of a face and Baidu will try to return other photos of the same person, with information on the name of the person. There are reports that the feature works […]
Google Voice Search & Search By Image Comes To Desktops
Mobile innovation is fueling Google’s search offerings for the desktop, as the company today announced two new search interfaces — Voice and Image — inspired by mobile Voice Search and Google Goggles, respectively. With Voice Search for the desktop, which is a feature of the Chrome browser, users click a microphone icon in the search […]
New: Google Improves Similar Image Search Filter
Google has made improvements to the similar images filter they added back in 2009. Google explained the improvements include: Fresher similar image results More comprehensive results for similar filters Support for site command on similar filters Here is a screen shot of one of the results: To access this yourself, go to Google Images, search […]
Got Questions For Big Players In Local Search?
Next week, I’m moderating a session at the Where 2.0 conference involving big names in local search: Bing, Google, Yahoo and Yelp. Got some questions you want put to the panel about current challenges in local and where things are going? Let me know! The panel, The Big Picture, from the Big Players, begins at […]
Google Goggles: Take A Picture With Your Phone, Search By Image
Google Goggles, which I wrote about this morning, is actually now live at google.com/mobile/goggles. The Google Mobile Blog announced it, saying: In a nutshell, Goggles lets users search for objects using images rather than words. Simply take a picture with your phone’s camera, and if we recognize the item, Goggles returns relevant search results. Right […]
Find Similar Images Now In Google Image Search
Six months ago, Google released an image search labs project that allowed you to search by similarity within image search. Google announced that they have promoted that labs project as a default feature in Google Image Search. Now when you search on Google Images, you may often find a link under the image that says, […]
Yahoo Adds Travel Photo Tours To Image Search
Image search could use a little organization, especially when you’re searching for generic terms like place names — cities, states, or tourist/geographic attractions. Who wants to browse through a couple million images of Boston to help plan your first visit there? Yahoo is making it easier to virtually tour popular places with what it calls […]
Google Researchers Create Landmark Image Search Engine
When most of us travel, we like to visit famous landmarks in the area we’re touring. It’s easy to find famous landmarks, like the Eiffel Tower or the Great Pyramid, but can be difficult to find lesser known sites. And for armchair travelers, it can take time to search for images of landmarks even with […]
Google Adds Search By Similarity To Image Search
Google has introduced a new experimental refinement tool that lets you click a “similar images” link beneath image search results and see a new screen of images with similar color, shape and other visual elements. The new tool has been released in Google Labs and isn’t yet available in standard image search results. The similar […]
Google Image Search Adds Color Picker
Google Operating System spotted a new feature on Google Image Search. The feature allows you to click on the color of images you want to be found, and Google will filter your query based on images that match the query and the color you selected. For example, I search on [flowers] and then chose the […]
Microsoft’s TechFest 2009 Is A Search Playground
Hundreds of Microsoft researchers from around the world gathered at company headquarters in Redmond this week for TechFest 2009, a chance to share ideas and show off their latest creations. Although Microsoft emphasizes that there are no plans to bring any of this technology into Live Search, some of the interesting ideas were featured this […]
Search Pictures With Pictures At Live Search
Live Search announced you can now use images to find similar images in Live Image Search. To use this feature, you go to Live Image Search, search for an image, hover over an image, and click on “show similar images.”
Google Paper: Better Image Search Though VisualRank / Image Rank
A Google Prototype for a Precision Image Search from the New York Times covers a new research paper (PDF format) from Google that talks about a way of ranking images based on analyzing "visual links" between them.
Teaching Google To See Images
“Image search” is really something of a misnomer, because current generation search engines rely primarily on text to “understand” all types of content, including images. When you search for images on Google, Flickr or most other search engines, they aren’t examining the pixels that make up images. Instead, search engines look for clues that might […]
Polar Rose Promising Face Recognition Image Search
I got a press release today from Polar Rose, a new company promising to bring facial recognition technology to those seeking images from across the web. In other words, want to find all the pictures of Bill Clinton? Polar Rose says it will make it happen through a browser plug-in that works with existing photo […]