We have been playing with our new image search service and doing all kinds of interesting searches. The questions in my mind is: when you do a Google image search, you typically find images that are tagged with your subject matter tag: say I am looking for “Uncle Sam” images, I find images that are tagged “Uncle Sam” or in a page with “Uncle Sam” text in close proximity to the image. Now how...
Where can I find this lamp?
During my travels on the intertubes, I have a had a bad habit of collecting images I think are interesting. I drag images off of web pages and into my “unsorted” pictures folder which I check out every year or so for a laugh. The only thing that’s bad about this habit is that unlike a bookmark, there’s rarely context associated with an image file. There is rarely metadata about the images and...
The Future of Copyright
Cory Doctorow (Boing Boing) has a great little article in The Guardian titled “Copyright law should distinguish between commercial and cultural uses”. This is something that I have been thinking about for quite some time. Since we are in the business of tracking images and videos, fair use and copyright infringements are daily conversations at Idée (in a good way, we are idealists...
Everywhere Girl, The Book
If you’ve ever worried about photos from your past coming back to haunt you, get to know the story of the Everywhere Girl. Over a decade ago she was a young actress posing for a series of stock photos. While she’s no Mona Lisa, in recent years her photos have made their way into royalty-free collections and crept into print and web designs the world over. First chronicled in Paul Hales’...
Top Mugs of 2007
2007 was a banner year for celebrity crime with eight mugshots breaking into the top 500 most used entertainment images of the year. Using the image recognition powers of PixID, we analyzed thousands of print magazines and newspapers to compile a list of the most used mugshots of 2007. Here they are in order of ascending popularity (least to most). 8. Actor Jason Wahler (The Hills) gets 30 days...
Mona Lisa Gets Around
According to our PixID Image Monitoring Service, the Mona Lisa is one of the most used and abused images in print advertising today. Just using our image recognition technology, we compared millions of images against our growing collection of scanned print magazines and newspapers. The results were astounding – Mona Lisa really gets around. Here are the most interesting sightings of Mona Lisa in...
BYO Image Search Lab
Which images in Alamy’s massive stock photo collection resemble the Google logo?
Or the American flag?
How about the cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band?
Or a No Smoking Sign?