Image Research

mustaba

9th December 2008 - 03:54 PM

Just a thought, but I’m doing a fare amout of research at the moment which involves figuring out what a particular image is of.
What would be ideal is a Reverse Image Search (RIS) engine that would allow you to upload an image, which in turn would then show description results for what that image is of.
Surely with the growing number of stock image libraries online this could potentially be a reality, or have i missed something and this is already available.
Form a sore-eyed researcher.
Thanks.

SC

tineye

2nd July 2009 - 09:55 PM

Take a look at tineye.com
It is a reverse image search engine.

rpenner

10th July 2009 - 05:35 AM

TinEye.com is not a solution to what a picture is of. It will just help you find a file that matches a particular image.

So if you upload a picture of the Eiffel Tower, TinEye won't tell you it's the Eiffel tower unless it has seen that exact same image file and that file has a good file name or URL associated with it.

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