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Tool for searching images

Name: edg 2005-12-30 16:19

I've been looking for a tool that would search for picture's origins in the internet. If I have a picture on my computer and want to find out where is this picture from. What could I do, except asking ppl or trying to guess keywords in google? Is there a tool which could help me?

Name: edg 2006-01-11 5:02

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Sure, there is no way to handle all possible cases. Transformations like rotation are pretty impossible to handle in real time nowadays. But don't even hope to do that. What I am aiming at is unchanged images and images with slight transformations. And with slight transformations I will mainly aim at image resizing and saving in another file format. I don't hope much for transformations like sub images and crops. Still I will give even them a try because it's fun for me.

Most of the people look at the problem from a "do it all" perspective. And of course they find it impossible to do. I am looking at the problem from a "do it fast what you can" perspective. As I don't know any precedents, I don't know whether I will stop at being able to find only unchanged images or more can be done really fast. Either case, the result will be useful at least for me. And as I said: it's fun.

I have also considered the imgSeek's similarity to what I'm willing to make. That project is aimed from the very begining from picture finding from a rough sketch. Contrarary I will aim at pictures very similar to the target. Therefore even if their project went down this is not a downer for me. Because I will take a different path.

Well, you can still be sceptical about this, but I don't think I have much to add. There are two kind of people who hear about my problem: "go for it!" and "give it up!". Choose your side! :)

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