Yissum, partnered with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem published (IEEE) information on a new algorithm for ultra-rapid image retrieval which they say is robust and reliable. It is obviously going to be very useful in large image databases. They say that basically you could take a photo of a restaurant and then immediately get information on it from the photo analysis. In fact it has many applications, they give the example of surveillance cameras.
The algorithm decides which pattern and areas (windows) are non-similar rather than establishing a distance measure. This way unnecessary information is not computed so it's faster. They say it can detect "low quality patterns, rotated patterns or patterns that are partly occluded."
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This will be very interesting to any image search engine in particular, because their databases are large and they often rely on tags. There is work in image recognition for sure, but this really cool because I'd quite like to pick a photo and immediately get information on it. This would be particularly powerful in mobile search.
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