[Search-l] vizual searching

[Marc .]

Maybe these links can help for this kind of search, "just" adapting
their technologies.

However, I think that, probably, even if it can be apply for an
internet search engine like Wikia Search, these links will by more
useful for a next step, when the project will be more mature.
I think that: 1- let's start something, even if it is very "simple"
and not so much "useful" , than 2- more people will know about this
work, and will join the community, than 3- a more developed kind of
search engine can be create by an "big" on-line collaboration team for
one goal: build a better search engine. (That's very similar with most
of open source projects, I know, but it can be useful to remind it,
sometimes)

Here are the links

http://www.facedetection.com/index.htm
http://torch3vision.idiap.ch/introduction.php
http://www.torch.ch/


BR
Marc Rosenfeld


PS: I studied management, so I don't write codes neither... ; )


2007/4/26, EVANS, KENNETH (WOODY) <KENNETH.EVANS at tccd.edu>:
> I'm a librarian, and I've been thinking about visual searching a lot
> because I get frustrated with the searches I have to settle for... If I
> want a "blue" picture, I have to count on someone using the word "blue"
> as a tag, subject heading in metadata, or in the filename
> (blueboat.png).
>
> I've been working on an idea I was calling "Vizibiz" -- a search engine
> that would let you upload or paste images, and return results that were
> visually similar.  The notion was that every pixel would be analyzed,
> and metadata would be created for each pixel -- color, position in pic,
> color of neighboring pixels.  Vizibiz would also search in traditional
> metadata and filenames, file sizes, and other attributes (page context).
>
> This idea never got off the ground because 1) I don't write code.  I'm
> code ignorant.  2) When I started searching for open software that could
> get me started doing this job, I discovered a couple of companies that
> already seem to be on this track:
> http://www.evisionglobal.com/tech/basic_demo.html
> http://able.mulabs.com/
>
> What if this were web-based?  And free for anyone to use?  Is there any
> traction for this sort of search interface in Search Wikia?  Kind of
> like a "music genome project", but automated and for visual rather than
> audio elements...
>
> Thoughts?
>
> --
> Woody Evans
> http://woodyevans.com/
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