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World's First content based image search

It is estimated that 50,000,000,000 image searches are done worldwide each year, all of which are text based.
However, since the early '90, there has been a long felt need to retrieve images by their content, with no commercial success yet….
Well, Picitup have done it!

Subsequent to several years of research and an initial beta stage, Picitup now provides for a line of tools for content based image retrieval.
The first of them is Picmatch™, a powerful image search tool.
The usage starts with normal text query for an image, But then there's a twist- one can now pick any image result and filter in similar images only.
As result an image search that will usually take 10 page views will be reduced 5 times to 2 pages views!

Advanced algorithms and supercomputing power

But an image has million times more information than a text string,  So how does Picitup respond in just a few seconds?
To achieve that, the Picitup patent pending algorithms compute thousands of visual aspects of that image, such as the corners of one's smile, a product title or a landscapes texture; and retrieve only images with significant similarity to the original image.
To do all those comparisons in real time, the Picitup grid server provides for several Teraflops of computing power, equivalent to thousands of Intel Pentium processors.

More visual search tools

In addition, Picitup has analyzed tens of thousands of images and classified them into categories.
The outcome is a category filter that now allows a user to limit their image search to Faces, Products or Landscapes.
Furthermore, if one just wants to find images of specific dominant color, Picitup offer a quick color filter.
Picitup has researched and defined the main looked for color space categories and is using the resulting proprietary color filters to fetch only images with a chosen dominant color.

And now for some fun

For the celebrity fans amongst us, Picitup provides a celebrity face match service.
Where anyone can upload their photos and receive their ten celebrity look alikes.
While this application is to some extent playful, the technology behind it will allow further down the road to search
for anyone one wishes to find only by his/her photo…!