Google working on new image search technology

[M Nabil]

TechConnect Magazine - Google working on new image search technology

With image search on the rise, Google's wizards have been given the unholy task of making some new formula that would enhance search queries. The result is currently a prototype technology called VisualRank and is said to become as popular as the PageRank software which is used with web page searches. VisualRank leaves texts to rest and makes use of image recognition technologies in order to find the appropriate files and rank them accordingly.

"We wanted to incorporate all of the stuff that is happening in computer vision and put it in a Web framework," said Shumeet Baluja, one of Google's many researchers. "The company’s expertise in creating vast graphs that weigh 'nodes,' or Web pages, based on their 'authority, can be applied to images that are the most representative of a particular query."

Currently, the VisualRank tech is still being worked on as it needs a lot of tweaking before becoming something that would actually be used successfully on a large scale. Some are saying that it can't be done, but it's not over until the chubby IT company sings.

[javayahtzee]

I've thought they should do stuff like this for a long time.
What I think would be cool is if they had a search where you could sketch the general shape of what you're looking for, and it would give you the closest matches.
That'd be good for situations where you can't remember what something's called, but you know what it looks like (hope Google reads ddBoard so they'll see this )

[snorlaxle]

Wow sounds great!
google is getting better and best!!

[QueenZ]

This sound really cool as i'm a big images.google.com fan I'm using images search all the times! Cheers for google

[EnZo]

well imagine the processing power needed to do such query recognitions. They'd take the software development to a whole new level.
I'm with the skeptic people that say that this can't be done yet.

[mattcch2007]

Originally Posted by EnZo

well imagine the processing power needed to do such query recognitions. They'd take the software development to a whole new level.
I'm with the skeptic people that say that this can't be done yet.

agreed with you,

even a simple media streaming server is high resource demanding ....




mattcch2007

[fishfin]

Originally Posted by mattcch2007

agreed with you,

even a simple media streaming server is high resource demanding ....




mattcch2007

Read up Google platform - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Google has two football-field sized data centers in California, two in Virginia, and possibly another one in Europe.

NEVER DOUBT GOOGLE.

[daplounge]

This sounds cool. I wonder how long it will take to develop...

[ALK]

As for now, they're using this: Google Image Labeler