![]() I spent the next half-hour coding and when I was done I had created a visual search engine for my family vacation photos. Wouldn’t that be cool? It would allow you to apply visual search to your own images, in just a single click.Īnd that’s exactly what I did. What if you could actually search your collection of images using an another image? I’m talking about something more powerful. No, I’m not talking about manually tagging your images. While applications such as iPhoto let you organize your photos into collections and even detect and recognize faces, we can certainly do more. You could literally feel the breeze on your skin and smell the ocean air.Īfter seeing this photo, I stopped my manual search and opened up a code editor. Crystal clear ocean water, lapping at the golden sands. It was a beautiful, almost surreal beach shot. ![]() Perhaps by luck, I stumbled across one of the beach photographs. ![]() ![]() The photos were not organized in folders like I remembered - I simply couldn’t find the beach photos that I was desperately searching for. The meta-information for each JPEG contained incorrect dates. I opened up iPhoto, and slowly made my way through the photographs. You see, I was looking for a bunch of photos that were taken along the beaches of Hawaii with my family. I faced this pain myself last Tuesday as I was going through some old family photo albums there were scanned and digitized nine years ago. Whether you are tagging and categorizing your personal images, searching for stock photos for your company website, or simply trying to find the right image for your next epic blog post, trying to use text and keywords to describe something that is inherently visual is a real pain. Trying to search for images based on text and tags sucks. ![]()
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