The Search of Faces on Google Images
Images May 27th, 2007 - By Haochi
Google Images search has a new feature that allows you to restrict results to faces and news related images only. To restrict images to faces only, you will only need to add &imgtype=face at the end the original URL, like-wise, adding &imgtype=news will restrict to news related images from websites of online news agencies.
You can compare the query “Google” in the three different situations here:
Normal || Restricted to face || Restricted to news
Google probably employed the technology of Neven Vision that they acquired last year, but didn’t they said that it’s to improve Picasa? Either way, the result benefits us, the users. :)
[via Google Operating System and Zorgloob]
May 29th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
Hi, we have now been working for a while on a prototype, proof-of-concept image search engine called Behold that combines visual concept analysis with traditional text search. It does what the article says but in a more extended manner.
http://www.beholdsearch.com
It currently indexes over 1 million images from university websites (obviously much smaller scale than Google). So far it handles 57 visual concepts which can be helpful when extracted html metadata is poor. It can do what this article says, i.e. restrict search results obtained through traditional search by the probability of the image containing a particular visual concept. This feature is available here for you to try:
http://go.beholdsearch.com/searchc.jsp
More about this feature on this blog post:
http://beholdsearch.blogspot.com/2006/11/new-feature.html