ArchiveAugust 2008

TinEye has a keen eye for images

TinEye is certainly busy searching up a storm.  It is great to see so many nifty search results and to find out how our beta image search engine is helping you locate images online. From photoshopped cows to book cover artwork, TinEye is finding amazing matches.
Here are just a few of the recent cool searches that have been submitted to us by TinEye fans from around the globe…

On the subject of search: the Petabyte Age

From Chris Anderson the editor in chief of Wired: Sixty years ago, digital computers made information readable. Twenty years ago, the Internet made it reachable. Ten years ago, the first search engine crawlers made it a single database. Now Google and like-minded companies are sifting through the most measured age in history, treating this massive corpus as a laboratory of the human condition...

Automatic face replacement? Check!

I had not seen this paper about automatic face replacement to deal with privacy issues for example. […] we present a complete system for automatic face replacement in images. Our system uses a large library of face images created automatically by downloading images from the internet, extracting faces using face detection software, and aligning each extracted face to a common coordinate...