Picollator: Graphical Query System
April 14, 2009
Now’s here’s a really neat idea: a search engine that finds pictures based upon a graphical query–not a text query. The Picollator universal search engine, http://www.recogmission.com/products/picollator, scans the Internet collecting digital images and matches visual objects within the images using pattern recognition technology. The system accepts both text queries and sample images simultaneously to find relevant resources in the Web. You can do a search right now at http://www.picollator.com/. I tried a celebrity actor and didn’t get anything with just the picture; I also had to a text element to the search. I can do that in Google Images. So I’m not so sure this program works all that well with just the digital image. Perhaps it would function better in a closed database. Definitely a worthwhile project though.
Jessica Bratcher, April 14, 2009
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