Comments on: Google Image Search – Now By Colour! http://www.bloomagency.co.uk/blog/search-and-social/google-image-search-now-by-colour/ Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:31:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Web Design Norwich http://www.bloomagency.co.uk/blog/search-and-social/google-image-search-now-by-colour/#comment-154 Web Design Norwich Fri, 15 Oct 2010 10:55:36 +0000 http://www.bloomagency.co.uk/blog/?p=278#comment-154 This is an interesting article, i find the way Google currently lists its images awkward and found it better before listed as pages. Having said that i have always found google images pretty accurate and always found what i am looking for. This is an interesting article, i find the way Google currently lists its images awkward and found it better before listed as pages. Having said that i have always found google images pretty accurate and always found what i am looking for.

]]> By: stuartpturner http://www.bloomagency.co.uk/blog/search-and-social/google-image-search-now-by-colour/#comment-153 stuartpturner Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:08:12 +0000 http://www.bloomagency.co.uk/blog/?p=278#comment-153 Good call Dom, if Google fulfils it's threat of proper blended results we might see photos, maps and Street View all becoming one beautiful medly. This has been partially implemented but not to its fullest potential. Didn't realise cameras were getting location aware, cool but a bit Skynet... With the addition of facial recognition you could also include filters like 'beard', 'moustache' or even 'mullet' once things got advanced enough - maybe even down to eye colour or hair colour - imagine that! The stalking possibilites would be massively increased as well though but given the way Google deals with privacy (very seriously) I'm sure they will keepo an eye on it. Good call Dom, if Google fulfils it’s threat of proper blended results we might see photos, maps and Street View all becoming one beautiful medly. This has been partially implemented but not to its fullest potential. Didn’t realise cameras were getting location aware, cool but a bit Skynet…

With the addition of facial recognition you could also include filters like ‘beard’, ‘moustache’ or even ‘mullet’ once things got advanced enough – maybe even down to eye colour or hair colour – imagine that! The stalking possibilites would be massively increased as well though but given the way Google deals with privacy (very seriously) I’m sure they will keepo an eye on it.

]]> By: Dominic Kelly http://www.bloomagency.co.uk/blog/search-and-social/google-image-search-now-by-colour/#comment-152 Dominic Kelly Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:41:56 +0000 http://www.bloomagency.co.uk/blog/?p=278#comment-152 I would expect precise location to be the next big thing in image search. Most newer camera's these days are location aware, or can easily be equipped with a GPS dongle. For example, in the not so distant future, a search for "historic buildings Leeds" would lookup all images with the location attribute set to "Leeds", rather than just reading from the filename or human labels. Also, facial recognition could be easily integrated into image search. Facebook already has it in it's Photo Albums, and so does Apple's iPhoto '09. Again, rather than relying on ambiguous filenames or descriptions, it would be nice to be able to find every photo of "Megan Fox" based on actual computed facial recognition, not least because she is ridiculously hot. This does raise all kinds of privacy issues, but if you empower the users with the option then that isn't really a problem at all. Check out Yahoo's image search too. I can't vouch for it's accuracy, but the interface is a bit nicer in my opinion. I would expect precise location to be the next big thing in image search. Most newer camera’s these days are location aware, or can easily be equipped with a GPS dongle.

For example, in the not so distant future, a search for “historic buildings Leeds” would lookup all images with the location attribute set to “Leeds”, rather than just reading from the filename or human labels.

Also, facial recognition could be easily integrated into image search. Facebook already has it in it’s Photo Albums, and so does Apple’s iPhoto ’09. Again, rather than relying on ambiguous filenames or descriptions, it would be nice to be able to find every photo of “Megan Fox” based on actual computed facial recognition, not least because she is ridiculously hot. This does raise all kinds of privacy issues, but if you empower the users with the option then that isn’t really a problem at all.

Check out Yahoo’s image search too. I can’t vouch for it’s accuracy, but the interface is a bit nicer in my opinion.

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