can also be "how can I search for this girl's photo" or "additional stalking skills you can use"
don't get what I mean? listen on!
Image search is a specialized data search used to find images. To search for images, a user may provide query terms such as keyword, image file/link, or click on some image, and the system will return images "similar" to the query. The similarity used for search criteria could be meta tags, color distribution in images, region/shape attributes, etc.
Image meta search - search of images based on associated metadata such as keywords, text, etc.
Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) – the application of computer visionto the image retrieval. CBIR aims at avoiding the use of textual descriptions and instead retrieves images based on similarities in their contents (textures, colors, shapes etc.) to a user-supplied query image or user-specified image features.
List of CBIR Engines - list of engines which search for images based image visual content such as color, texture, shape/object, etc.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_search
The point of this exercise is to be able to search the web for IMAGES given a sample image file. Now imagine the things you can do when you have a picture of a girl you like, search it thru the web, find her facebook.....
anyway here are some famous sites that have this ability:
http://www.google.com/imghp
http://labs.ideeinc.com/upload/
http://labs.systemone.at/retrievr/
here's an example on how this is done:
here are some applications that I can think of:
researching of similar photos
if you're trying to clean your internet identity
well that's all for me today!
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