Barry Lee Brisco wrote:
> A new company says it has a solution. It is about to launch a search engine
> that will locate images on the World Wide Web the way existing search
> engines locate words.
Doesn't surprise me--saw this technology two years ago at the U of
Iowa. Program grabs image, matches color patterns and image edges, and
matches those to the definition of the master image. At the time, they
were using it to find pictures of horses on the Internet--it could find
color patterns and the outline of a horse, then categorize what it found
based on various characteristics. The goal then was to adapt it to find
child pornography . . . it could match skin tones of kids and specific
color patterns and human forms, and sort a myriad of stuff into a small
pile that enforcement people could manage . . . complete with links back
to original source.
Sounds like a broader application of same thing.
This assumes a lot about an image or logo, though. Any search for the
ATT logo is going to find 2 million images of the Death Star :) The
Lucent logo is going to return millions of circles . . .
Brett
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