Archive for the ‘Image Search’ Category
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Poking around in Google Similar Images, I've found examples that give indications of how the system works. I've put several of these together in a Flickr set, from which the example below is taken.
The top image in each of the pairs below ("Full size image") is a choice from the ...
Posted in Flickr, Google, Image Search, PicsYes, Uncategorized, eBooks | 5 Comments »
Friday, February 27th, 2009
Yale Image Finder is a search engine for searching medical articles in PubMed Central for images. YIF is notable because it searches for text that is contained in images, many of which are charts and graphs with embedded "text" describing the data being presented. The “text” in these images, as ...
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Adam Hodgkin, in Google Pictures and Google Books, wonders why Google has chosen to put Prado paintings in Google Earth rather than in Google Images. In December I asked a similar question about Google's putting Life Magazine pictures in Google Images, but putting other picture-laden magazines in Google Books. And, ...
Posted in Google, Google Book Search, Image Search, Magazines, Newspapers, PicsNo, Uncategorized | No Comments »
Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Until now, books with pictures, especially color pictures, have been a relatively small part of Google Books. But the addition of highly visual, popular magazines changes this -- The titles added so far are filled with pictures!
On one level, more pictures in Google Books is gratifying -- a theme ...
Posted in Google Book Search, Image Search, Magazines, Navigation, PicsYes, Thumbnails, Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
Friday, July 11th, 2008
As computers have become more powerful, many of the aspects of handling text that were formerly done by humans have been taken over by computers. Pictures, however, are much more difficult to automate -- Recognizing patterns remains a task that humans do much better than computers. A human infant can ...
Posted in Google, Hardin MD, Human input, Image Search, Pattern recognition, PicsNo, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
