Searching by Image Instead of Keywords

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 4, 2005 @01:00PM from the find-me-something-square-and-green dept.

Content based image retrieval (CBIR), the technique to search for images not by keywords, but by comparing features of the images themselves has been the focus of much research ever since the web emerged. Consider for instance adding CBIR to Google Images, where you would be able to search for images similar to a query image instead of using keywords. A research project at Penn State University has recently been applied to the biggest aviation photo database in the world with close to 800,000 images. You can search for images similar to a photo already in their database (click "View similar photos") or submit your own query image. Some queries generate better results than others but CBIR is certainly here to stay and will be standard in many image applications of the future.

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Re:Think of the greatness to society! by rpcxdr · 2005-05-04 13:40 · Score: 2, Insightful

Ehm - not no be too much of a geek, but here are some airplanes that (don't) look like the Slashdot logo...

http://www.airliners.net/similarity/index.php?imag e_url=http://images.slashdot.org/title.gif

BTW, if you want to post other searches, this URL format seems to work.