TinEye: image recognition search

[jcl]

Previously on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=535818

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=423679

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=356971

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=302020

(and several more articles discussing the company)

[swombat]

Someone needs to give these guys a big wad of cash so they can index more sites. I got some interesting results even on some moderately obscure images, but many others returned no results.

Even with a small index, though, this is pretty damn cool.

[jdrock]

At the risk of being spammy, I really do think they'd benefit from using the service my company has developed - http://www.80legs.com. They'll be able to reach and compare millions of images per day for less than $100 (depending on the computational complexity of their image comparison).

[DarkShikari]

I tested a forum avatar that was downscaled to the point of unrecognizability... and it found the specific original image immediately.

It is pretty impressive.

[mrtron]

Idée Inc has been around for quite a while doing cool image stuff - they are almost certainly funded. This is a really impressive pattern matching search.

[tortilla]

I agree, was thoroughly impressed with them when I tried some random images.

Unfortunately, they might have to add a Twitter suffix to their name to attract funding.

[voidpointer]

This could be very useful to show how some crowed-sourcing/spec-work design contest sites are filled with ripped-off illustrations and logos. Example taking this screenshot: http://www.thelogofactory.com/logo_blog/v5.0_images/CS-istoc... From this article: http://www.thelogofactory.com/logo_blog/index.php/anti-spec-... Gives interesting results as to where else the crab-illustration got used. (Not sure how permanent the search links to tineye are, but anyway: http://tineye.com/search/df2783dbde7f56ccdfbcdb61460185f4096...)

[mlok]

The firefox plugin (I found it very useful) is here :

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8922

[davidbnewquist]

In addition to TinEye, they another image search for more loosely similar pics: very, very cool.

http://labs.ideeinc.com/visual/

On this page, you have to select the query image from a set they provide.

On the page linked below, you can upload your own.

http://labs.ideeinc.com/upload/

[leila]

... but guys have you seen the TinEye widgets? i bet you haven't:http://tineye.com/widgets/display my favorite is the angry baby of course http://tineye.com/widgets/display?baby

[cookiecaper]

A long time ago I saw something like this on OpenClipArt. The cool thing, though, was that it provided a Java applet where you could draw what you wanted and it would try to match that. I find that more useful and awesome, though this is useful too. I know basically the same thing could happen by using Paint or something, but it's cooler in browser. Please take note of this and someone implement a feature like it.

[zandorg]

Extraordinary!

I tested both my company logos in it, and nothing came up. This means they don't infringe. :-)

[Torn]

productised over at http://www.ideeinc.com/products/pixid/ -- great idea, I think.

Countdown until they're bought out by Google or similar? ...