Visual Search Engines Picitup and Find a Match
Visual search engine Picitup has launched into the alternative fray. The search begins with a textual query which registers a line of images, following which the user can pick the image he wants to find matching images for.
Picitup has also analyzed tens of thousands of images and classified them into categories. The outcome is a category filter that now allows users to limit their image search to faces, products, landscapes, or color. For example, a query of George Bush filtered by products will find posters, political cartoons, or T-shirts either with his face or having to do with him.
For the celebrity fans amongst us, Picitup provides for a celebrity face match service where anyone can upload their photos and receive their ten celebrity lookalikes. While this application is to some extent playful, Picitup hopes the technology behind it will allow further down the road to search for anyone one wishes to find only by his/her photo…!
Picitup’s algorithms compute thousands of visual aspects of an image, such as the corners of a smile, a product title or landscape texture, and then retrieve only images with similarity to the original image.
