We are now at the final step of building an image search engine — accepting a query image and performing an actual search. Let’s take a second to review how we got here: Step 1: Defining Your Image Descriptor. Before we…

First, let’s have a quick review. Two weeks ago we explored the first step of building an image search engine: Defining Your Image Descriptor. We explored three aspects of an image that can easily be described: color, texture, and shape.…

Last Wednesday’s blog post reviewed the first step of building an image search engine: Defining Your Image Descriptor. We then examined the three aspects of an image that can be easily described: Color: Image descriptors that characterize the color of…

On Monday, I showed you how to build an awesome Lord of the Rings image search engine, from start to finish. It was a lot of fun and we learned a lot. We made use of OpenCV image descriptors. More…

One Ring to rule them all, One ring to find them; One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. The image search engine we are about to build is going to be so awesome, it could…

It’s…it’s a histogram. – Dr. Grant Okay. So maybe that isn’t the exact quote. But I think Dr. Grant would have been equally thrilled had he known the power of color histograms. And more importantly, when the power goes out,…

What type of image search engine do you want to build? Is your search engine going to rely on tags, keywords, and text associated with an image? Then you’re probably building a search by meta-data image search engine. Are you…

When I first became interested in computer vision and image search engines over eight years ago, I had no idea where to start. I didn’t know which language to use, I didn’t know which libraries to install, and the libraries…