I’ve come across a unique and interesting problem. I have this image of a plant (found on the hiking trail) that I think is a useful herb, yet I am unable to search and identify what it is.
Have tried Google’s image search with numerous search terms such as “herb with pink flower” and “herb with pink flower and thin petals”, but haven’t gotten anywhere so far.
It would be so very useful to be able to upload an image and search for anything similar to it. Identify the species of snake that just bit you. Search for that cute girl on the opposite table. Find out if the mushroom is an edible one.
I’m sure Yahoo, the big G and Microsoft each have technology that can do some level of image matching, although at a high processing cost. Maybe they should offer such a service on an experimental basis.
5 thoughts on “Searching with images”
check any of these
Thistle
or
Canada Thistle
or
California Thistle
Hi, good post. I have been thinking about this topic,so thanks for posting. I will definitely be coming back to your site.
Intresting post! I agreed it would be not much difficult for technology gaints to indruduce the search engine of this king. while looking at http://similar-images.googlelabs.com one can assume that this is no far.
@SAGZ
Thanks. It indeed looks like a Thistle.
@Bilal
Thank you. I read about this when it was released, but didn’t realize it was close to what I was looking for.
Dude try bing! (bing.com)
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