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I wonder how reverse image search services like tineye.com work ...?

How Would the Reverse Image Search Engines like TinEye Work ? I mean what parameters are required to do an image search ?

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pankajdoharey Avatar asked Mar 15 '11 15:03

pankajdoharey


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Don't know if TinEye use exactly this one, but SURF is a commonly used algorithm for this purpose.

Here you can see an usage example in Mathematica where a partial matching of images is used to compose a landscape:

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Dr. belisarius Avatar answered Sep 19 '22 04:09

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