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January 3, 2006

Search Images by Drawing a Sketch

There is this new creative way to search for images, that currently doesn't work too well, but it still is very cool. It is named retrievr and you can search the Flickr image database by sketching something in real time. I found this by way of John Battelle via Research Buzz.

I had to start a thread on this at our forums, under the title, Image Search via Sketch.



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posted rustybrick in Other Search Engines at January 3, 2006 9:16 AM Comments (6)

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They must be getting too many hits:

Error in application retrievr
Maximum Thread count reached.

martin

 

Posted by martin at January 3, 2006 09:55

Yea working fine for the past two days. And working fine when I first posted it.

Anyway, wait it out, it is very cool.

 

Posted by Barry Schwartz at January 3, 2006 10:14

Researchers at Purdue University have been doing work in this area for sevreral years.

Here are a few links:
Publications (all full text):
http://me98pc26.ecn.purdue.edu/research.aspx

Demo (IE Only):
http://me98pc26.ecn.purdue.edu/search.aspx

Overview article:
3D Searching starts to take shape
From Computer.org (PDF)
http://csdl.computer.org/comp/mags/co/2004/08/r8024.pdf


Search by Shape
http://www.designnews.com/article/CA421193

Overview article from News.com
http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5182775.htm

 

Posted by gary price at January 3, 2006 17:36

Outstanding Gary. Thank you for sharing!

 

Posted by Barry Schwartz at January 3, 2006 17:54

it doesnt work too well at all. i did a sketch and then sketched my version of one of the images that appeared (a finger with a face drawn on it) and the image I was sketching disappeared from the results list! all it really does is find images with similar pallettes. lame.

 

Posted by john at August 27, 2006 18:01

can I suggest the free software SearchByDrawing from http://www.sepham.com ?

 

Posted by me at May 12, 2009 15:48

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