Comments on: TinEye Image Analytics

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:29:00 +0000

can someone please let me know how to put a copyright stamp on my photos so that no one is allowed to use my photos for their personal use? I am having a major problem with people stealing my photos from my facebook account. I don’t know who is doing this and TE is not locating any of my photos for some strange reason. I feel like I have no options and no outlet. Is there any suggestions out there?

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 21:00:24 +0000

First: you did a great job. I work daily with tinEye. Nearly one year from now. For me as an artist and “image-optimizer” it’s a great tool to control the “top-images”.

My default option is to search for the biggist image. Mostly this is the original. But when I think of it I have no ideas what to do better. Perhaps crawln a little bit faster german results ;-)

By: Cliff Hide

Cliff Hide — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:00:35 +0000

A few thoughts …

I’m a freelance photographer and the image alert would be very useful track down copyright infringements. Prehaps the auto alerts could be paid for via a revenue share?

Also the ability to search for watermarks (which all my unsold images are).

Basically some sort of pro-lite product aimed at freelancers rather than companies would be ideal!

By: Paulo Rodrigues

Paulo Rodrigues — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 17:42:59 +0000

I would like to see integration with websites like flickr and image libraries so that every time you upload your images they get added to the index.

This would allow people to find you when they are searching for your image to attribute you or pay you

You could put the image libraries at the top of the search results

This would be the killer application if orphan works legislation ever came in, because a search on tineye would prevent your work being used as an orphan work

By: Android development services

Android development services — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 21:10:50 +0000

This is very interesting, and very dangerous at the same time. Yes, you can send alerts about attribution. Okay. What about photos of events where dozens of photographs attend to shoot the same people. Your engine will think it’s a similar image… but in fact, in might just have been shot at the same time by the guy standing next to the original photographer. Especially if the photographed subject is far away, you will have almost no parallax effect in the effective resolution most people use online.
Am I missing something?
Like that iPhone example in the video. Don’t tell me my own iPhone would not look the same if photographed. It will then popup as an alert to someone, although I shot the photo with my own gear.

By: Jonte

Jonte — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:13:11 +0000

I would actually like to point to a source URL (like my blogg) and ask TinEye to report where else the same images can be found. TinEye would then give me a nice interface to filter what images I’m interested in watching. How the source URL should be traversed in a smart way I leave up to you. :-)

I actually don’t see much point in having to upload images. My guess is most stolen images are stolen from the web, so they are already on the web somewhere. Why bother with doing the work of uploading twice?

By: Yue

Yue — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:35:54 +0000

TinEye is an awesome tool! I wonder if the image matching algorithm can be expanded to handle broader matches? I’d love to see matches made on similar hue or value compositions, etc. Imagine being able to find an image with only a rough sketch of what you remember seeing!

By: pictures

pictures — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:54:09 +0000

An image matching alert would be great. I use to upload some images every certain time to see if Tineye has found any coincidence (or a new coincidence) anywhere. It would be great to upload those images just once (or pick them from our history records) and mark them for image alert.

By: Steven

Steven — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:08:20 +0000

Sorry for not reading all the comments on the site to see if this has been mentioned before, but I’m not a photographer or rights holder looking for infringers. I use TinEye to try to find out the licensing status of images I’d like to use on my blogs, hoping that they will either be GPL’d or at least reasonably priced.

But, digging through all the results is tedious. So, what I’d love to see, if you can work out the details with the rights holders, is a message on your search results saying, “This image belongs to so-and-so, click here to make an arrangement with him to use this image.” Or if it’s GPL’d or known to be in the public domain, I want you to tell me that as well.

Maybe this would be attractive to rights holders, having people come to them, rather than having to hunt them down, and they would be willing to pay TinEye a finders fee for putting me in touch with them if the deal is made.

By: Georg Reimann

Georg Reimann — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:40:07 +0000

Danke