Finding Images Using Images

So Google Image Search is great when you can express what you’re looking for in text, like “cat on roof” or “map of Kansas.” But what if you want an image similar to one you already have? Wouldn’t it be better to search using the image?

For content producers, it might also be important to search the Internet for images identical to images they own to protect against copyright infringement. Performing that kind of search using text would be difficult at best, and impossible to automate.

Where does that leave us? Well, if we want to make those types of searches possible, we’ll have to figure out a way to search using an image as the search parameter. I propose one method of large-scale image search, though there are other, more complicated schools of thought.

For the record:

@Unpublished{hanson_afis08,
        author = "Philip Hanson",
        title = {A Novel Use of Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems for Large-Scale Image Search}
        month = {December}
        year = {2008}
        note = {}
}

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