{"id":2397,"date":"2008-05-06T07:45:34","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T12:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=2397"},"modified":"2008-05-06T07:45:34","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T12:45:34","slug":"idee-launches-tineye-image-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/05\/06\/idee-launches-tineye-image-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Idee launches TinEye image search"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have to declare a conflict of interest up front with this post: Leila Boujnane, the CEO of Toronto’s Idee Inc., has been a friend of mine for some time now. She is not just a tireless supporter of technology startups and entrepreneurs in Toronto, but is also smart, funny, relentlessly positive and generally just a pleasure to have around. She and her team at Idee<\/a> also have one of the least-known Toronto success stories: an image-recognition company that is second to none, and has major customers such as Adobe using its technology.<\/p>\n

Today, Idee is taking the image-recognition chops it has built up through corporate image searches and applying them to consumer-level searchs through a beta called TinEye.com. Using either an image from your hard drive or a link to one on the Web (the service also has a Firefox plugin that adds TinEye to the right-click menu), the service can almost instantly produce a list of similar images — even when the image in question has been stretched, shrunk, cropped, flipped, had the colour profile changed, or been otherwise modified. <\/p>\n

I saw a demo of the corporate version of this technology a while back and was blown away, and now it is being made available<\/a> to anyone. Unlike most image-search services, which use the text and keywords associated with a photo or image, Idee uses the digital “fingerprint” of the actual pixels in the image and compares that with others until it finds a match. Other companies have claimed to be able to do this in the past, (including Riya, which then became Like.com, a shopping search engine) but none have impressed me as much as TinEye.<\/p>\n

There’s more info<\/a> on TinEye at the Idee site (including the fact that it is currently crawling almost half a billion images), and there’s also a very helpful video explaining the service that features another friend<\/a> — Amber MacArthur, video-blogger extraordinaire and host of CommandN. I’ve got a limited number of invitations for the service available: drop your email into a comment or use my contact form (link in the upper right-hand corner of this page) and I’ll hand them out on a first-come, first-serve basis. Congrats to Leila and the rest of Idee.<\/p>\n

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I have to declare a conflict of interest up front with this post: Leila Boujnane, the CEO of Toronto’s Idee Inc., has been a friend of mine for some time now. She is not just a tireless supporter of technology startups and entrepreneurs in Toronto, but is also smart, funny, relentlessly positive and generally just … <\/p>\n

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