System One brings us a great new way to find images on Flickr (yup another Flickr fanboyâ„¢ post): Draw what you want. Click submit and see the matching images roll in. While it doesn’t use facial recognition it does occasionally offer some amazingly close finds as well as giving us new ways to find nifty pics. Here’s a quick rundown from the website:
“Does it actually work?
Yes! That is, it depends. (Mainly on your expectations!)
In my experience, the results are usually fairly good, sometimes even stunning – considering the artistic sophistication most of us are able to come up with (gallery forthcoming); and in the cases they’re not so stellar, they are at least entertaining ;-) But clearly, the approach has its limits.
One thing to keep in mind is that retrievr doesn’t do object/face/text recognition of any kind, so if you’re drawing an outline sketch of a chair, it almost certainly won’t get you one back (except your index only contains images of chairs). The same holds for corporate logos, icons &c.
It helps to think of it as matching the most pronounced shapes and slabs of colors.”
Works for me. I tried a little of everything from drawing a pathetic picture of balloons and got a nice set of ballon pics over to trying the best abtract drawing I could do with the brush sizes and found quite a few oddly creepy photos that I’d never have found otherwise. Sites like these reallly underscore the need for sites with cool technology to release API’s to the masses.
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