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TinEye image search
Jan. 27th, 2009 01:00 pmSo, Derek Powazek pointed to this discussion about, What was the original source for Fairey's Obama poster? Seems Fairey has been a leeeetle tight-lipped about it, saying only that he found it, "On the internet."
Which reminded me of something Kottke pointed to a while back (and that I mentioned at pub trivia last night): TinEye.
TinEye is a search engine for images. But TinEye is algorithmically-based, so you don't enter a description of the image. No, you either upload it to them, or give them a URL where it can be found.
Partly because of TinEye, I found there's a debate about which image it was -- the angle of Obama's head is very similar between the two of them -- this one or this one.
It's also interesting to put in Fairey's original posters -- TinEye returns 276 results (I'd like to show them to you, but can't, since TinEye is ID-based, so I can't do a link in). They are ranked, and if you go to the bottom of the results pages -- pages 26,27,28 of 10 images apiece -- one finds all kinds of cropping, the poster behind other people in the photo, that sort of thing. In other words, TinEye is recognizing even partial results for the image.
The optimist thinks this is cool and versatile. The pessimist fears the same.
Which reminded me of something Kottke pointed to a while back (and that I mentioned at pub trivia last night): TinEye.
TinEye is a search engine for images. But TinEye is algorithmically-based, so you don't enter a description of the image. No, you either upload it to them, or give them a URL where it can be found.
Partly because of TinEye, I found there's a debate about which image it was -- the angle of Obama's head is very similar between the two of them -- this one or this one.
It's also interesting to put in Fairey's original posters -- TinEye returns 276 results (I'd like to show them to you, but can't, since TinEye is ID-based, so I can't do a link in). They are ranked, and if you go to the bottom of the results pages -- pages 26,27,28 of 10 images apiece -- one finds all kinds of cropping, the poster behind other people in the photo, that sort of thing. In other words, TinEye is recognizing even partial results for the image.
The optimist thinks this is cool and versatile. The pessimist fears the same.
