What color is this dress? TinEye’s color algorithm tells you

In TinEye in action
February 27, 2015
1 Min read

It’s always a great day in the TinEye HQ when we can settle team arguments using our own technology. You have probably heard about a photograph called “the dress”, that has polarized the web.

Well, our TinEye team is divided into 2 fiercely opposed camps: the blue and black versus the gold and white camp. So instead of arguing over colors (!) we settled this like grown ups: we asked our color extraction algorithm to tell us what it sees:

The dress, Color extraction

The folks over at Wired provide a great explanation and some insightful information as to why we’re all so divided on this image.

 

How to use TinEye to search for an image online

In Image Search, TinEye in action
July 25, 2017
7 Min read
TinEye Reverse Image Search

To search by image, you use a reverse image search engine. TinEye is the original reverse image search engine, using image recognition with a growing index of billions of images. You can use TinEye to find out where an image came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find a higher resolution version. Let’s learn to do a reverse image search with TinEye!

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MulticolorEngine: color search with tags

In Image recognition APIs, Popular Posts, TinEye in action
December 11, 2014
2 Min read

TinEye color search fans rejoice! One of the most requested feature for our TinEye color search lab is the ability to not only search by color but also refine searches by using tags. And that’s what you are going to be able to do as of now: our new color search lab incorporates tags. You can now search 20 million creative commons images using both colors and tags.

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