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Unofficial Google Image Search by Drawing (or Webcam)

37 points by franze 15y ago

VMG 15y ago
dead (doesn't load)
- franze 15y ago
  heroku logs says everything is (still) ok
  - VMG 15y ago
    it's fine now
VMG 15y ago
This seems to be the only one type of search that yields the expected results: http://goo.gl/HEgdG http://goo.gl/HEgdG Still interesting though
sp332 15y ago
Excellent use of Google's "search by image" feature! https://www.google.com/insidesearch/searchbyimage.html https://www.google.com/insidesearch/searchbyimage.html
brackin 15y ago
Very interesting although all what shows for me is Logos because I cannot draw anything but stick figures on a mac touchpad.
petercooper 15y ago
One of my favorite papers from over the years is Fast Multiresolution Image Querying: http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/query/ http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/query/ .. which, on the surface, demonstrates how you could make an entire system like this for yourself. It's from the mid 90s! Direct link to the PDF at http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/query/mrquery.pdf http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/query/mrquery.pdf I seem to recall Nat Friedman was working on this sort of "image search by drawing" stuff in a popular Linux photo app in the mid 00s but I'm still looking for the citation.
garethsprice 15y ago
Fun idea, but what are the potential use cases? The results seem quite random, even the same image drawn slightly differently returns wildly different results. Tried finding logos with it (http://bit.ly/mOHZjx http://bit.ly/mOHZjx, http://bit.ly/rpHUOC http://bit.ly/rpHUOC), smiley face (http://bit.ly/p9EqV6 http://bit.ly/p9EqV6), Piet Mondrian (http://bit.ly/pSxzap http://bit.ly/pSxzap) and schoolboy's favorites (http://bit.ly/pYMeV6 http://bit.ly/pYMeV6 http://bit.ly/nr7wxf http://bit.ly/nr7wxf) with no joy. Anyone got it to find anything they specifically asked for? Edit: Last two NSFW if you work in a preschool or something.
altrego99 15y ago
Needs undo.
deleted 15y ago
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wgx 15y ago
Got some very bizarre results, none of which really matched anything I drew. I suspect this is more down to Google's image matching than your tool though! Example: http://imgur.com/PvIFT http://imgur.com/PvIFT
5partan 15y ago
Kinda poor, it doesn't really matter what you draw, the search results are nearly identical for each color
tripzilch 15y ago
Does Google Search By Image not work in Opera or something? The whole drawing part seems to work just fine, it then redirects me to Google where it's supposed to do Search By Image but I just get the Google Front page?
- franze 15y ago
  it's a bug on googles side, it's reported here http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web+Search/thread?tid=6c8fda0c0f045f07&hl=en http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web+Search/thread?tid=... would be cool if you add "opera too" to the bug report. thx.

37 points by franze 15y ago

VMG 15y ago

dead (doesn't load)

franze 15y ago
heroku logs says everything is (still) ok
- VMG 15y ago
  it's fine now

VMG 15y ago

This seems to be the only one type of search that yields the expected results: http://goo.gl/HEgdG http://goo.gl/HEgdG Still interesting though

sp332 15y ago

Excellent use of Google's "search by image" feature! https://www.google.com/insidesearch/searchbyimage.html https://www.google.com/insidesearch/searchbyimage.html

brackin 15y ago

Very interesting although all what shows for me is Logos because I cannot draw anything but stick figures on a mac touchpad.

petercooper 15y ago

One of my favorite papers from over the years is Fast Multiresolution Image Querying: http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/query/ http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/query/ .. which, on the surface, demonstrates how you could make an entire system like this for yourself. It's from the mid 90s! Direct link to the PDF at http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/query/mrquery.pdf http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/query/mrquery.pdf I seem to recall Nat Friedman was working on this sort of "image search by drawing" stuff in a popular Linux photo app in the mid 00s but I'm still looking for the citation.

garethsprice 15y ago

Fun idea, but what are the potential use cases? The results seem quite random, even the same image drawn slightly differently returns wildly different results. Tried finding logos with it (http://bit.ly/mOHZjx http://bit.ly/mOHZjx, http://bit.ly/rpHUOC http://bit.ly/rpHUOC), smiley face (http://bit.ly/p9EqV6 http://bit.ly/p9EqV6), Piet Mondrian (http://bit.ly/pSxzap http://bit.ly/pSxzap) and schoolboy's favorites (http://bit.ly/pYMeV6 http://bit.ly/pYMeV6 http://bit.ly/nr7wxf http://bit.ly/nr7wxf) with no joy. Anyone got it to find anything they specifically asked for? Edit: Last two NSFW if you work in a preschool or something.

altrego99 15y ago

Needs undo.

deleted 15y ago

[deleted]

wgx 15y ago

Got some very bizarre results, none of which really matched anything I drew. I suspect this is more down to Google's image matching than your tool though! Example: http://imgur.com/PvIFT http://imgur.com/PvIFT

5partan 15y ago

Kinda poor, it doesn't really matter what you draw, the search results are nearly identical for each color

tripzilch 15y ago

Does Google Search By Image not work in Opera or something? The whole drawing part seems to work just fine, it then redirects me to Google where it's supposed to do Search By Image but I just get the Google Front page?

franze 15y ago
it's a bug on googles side, it's reported here http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web+Search/thread?tid=6c8fda0c0f045f07&hl=en http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web+Search/thread?tid=... would be cool if you add "opera too" to the bug report. thx.