eBay has, in fact, been offering elements of visual search since at least 2011, specifically in mobile apps, where users might be using a smartphone camera to identify an image of something they would like to buy.
In a demo, HyperScience CEO Peter Brodsky showed me how HyperScience can not only identify an image of a dog, but can also understand that a sliver of an image of a dog (cropped down to just the ear) is still a dog.
Or it could identify an image of a woman with very white teeth and then serve an ad for a toothpaste brand.
"This abstractness has real consequences," they said, "as decisions are made that identify an image as a 'body,' turning that body into a target".
The client identifies an image representative of a dysfunctional target memory, rates the emotional significance of the image and identifies concomitant physiological sensations.
The parameter f1 is the probability that the image analysis algorithm being used to process the data will correctly identify an image of a single-molecule and determine its position, while f2 is the probability that the image analysis algorithm will correctly recognize 2-molecule overlaps as such and not analyze them.
That's why there's no formula for recognizing or identifying a beautiful image; it's not definable as a geometric or formal quality, but rather, essentially, as a communion of kindred spirits that's describable only in terms as literary as literature itself.
One possible way of identifying a test image as a screenshot is to measure the amount of combing artifacts.
Milabra's engine is capable of identifying a broad range of images, "from puppies to porn" (their words), and can be applied in a variety of ways like adult content prevention and automatically tagging images with searchable metadata.
The fractal analysis started by identifying an ROI within an OCT image.
Ms. Castagna is widely credited with helping Wal-Mart clearly identify a strong image for each of its clothing brands.
