To begin with, quite recently search engines could not effectively search the Internet for the images you are interested in. The whole search process took place only according to the words that we entered in the search. It was very difficult! After all, the desired image directly depended on its description, which could appear in the text next to the image on various sites, as well as on the name of the image.
For instance:
You are looking for paintings by the famous painter Pablo Picasso. Yes, a search engine will find you his paintings, but next to them he could find an image that a child drew, and his parent jokingly signed it: "The greatest work of Pablo Picasso!"
Of course, you may be a professional and easily distinguish the original from the child's picture, but not everyone can handle it. If you want, you can try to take a test, just on this topic:
Still, we grow and develop, and the same can be said about search engines. Today there are only a few services that can be preferred. Yandex and Google are naturally in the top three, and the lesser-known TinEye is on the third line. By the way, Bing and Rambler are still searching for pictures by words. And we will begin the review.
Here Google offers additional search criteria by size, similar images, and sites that may contain your desired image.
Search by image in I ndexe
Method number 1
To search for an image in Yandex, follow the link yandex.ru/images or go to the Yandex main page and click on "Pictures". Then click on the camera icon.
Like Google, there are three options for uploading an image for search:
- Enter the image address, that is, the URL.
- Upload file from computer.
- Drag the image directly to the search area.
Method number 2
This method is convenient for those who use the default Yandex browser. As in the case with Google, just right-click on the desired picture, then "Find this image in Yandex".
Result
This is what Yandex gave us after searching for a photo:
Yandex, unlike Google, does not try to guess what exactly is shown in the photo; instead, it offers a convenient table with all possible sizes.
Search by photo in TinEye
And finally, the third image search service that is leading in our list is TinEye. To start your search, simply go to tineye.com, download or drag and drop the image you want to search for.
For the test, we chose a photo, deliberately removing any mention of Jaguar from the name. As you can see in the screenshot below, TinEye did a great job. Found 61 results and even indicated the correct car name.
How to choose a service for searching images?
It can be summed up very simply. During the experiment, we tested more than one image in various services. In our opinion, these three coped more than well, and it seems to us that it is best to use Google or Yandex, since the latter application is in English. If there is no language barrier, then you can safely use the one that you like more. It's also worth noting that the aforementioned services are certainly not perfect, so when looking for something specific, you can test all three. But remember that if they did not cope with your task, then no one else can cope. Next, let's look at how to search for a picture from a phone.
Search by picture from phone (Android, iPhone).
It doesn't take any effort to find a photo, picture or any other image from your phone. Everything is just as easy and simple as on a regular computer. The search can be carried out by the picture that you have on your smartphone or by the one you found on the Internet.
So, let's say you are interested in the photo of the girl shown below and you would like to. To do this, of course, you need to send it to the search of one of the search engines Google or Yandex.
Tap on the photo and hold until a pop-up menu appears.
Click on "Find this image on Google" and you will instantly be taken to the page with the results of what the search engine found. In the Yandex browser, you can do exactly the same manipulation. If your picture or photo is on your smartphone, then to search you need to follow the same steps as on a computer (see the beginning of the article).
Search by image using mobile applications.
This application is very similar to Google Googles, but it helps more to find some goods in stores. Let's say you liked something, you can immediately take a photo of this object, thing, etc. and the app will help you find a place to buy it.
Browser extensions to search for pictures, photos and images.
Sometimes you may come across a situation that you need to find the exact image and would like to check in all services at once. Of course, it won't take 2 hours, but you still have to tinker. A service, or rather a browser extension, PhotoTracker Lite, can help you with this. Works with browsers: Yandex, Chrome, Opera. There is another bonus, the application searches for pictures in the Bing search engine.Thus, you can use all four services at the same time to find the desired image. To get started, install the extension to your browser.
After installation, you will be able to configure the extension, in which services to search, as well as in which window to open the page with the results (in the background or active, for this click on the "settings" gear).
After configuring the extension, you can safely use it for its intended purpose. By right-clicking, like in Google and Yandex, you can see a new subsection "Search this image". Click and the extension will redirect you to the results.
But that's not all, PhotoTracker Lite has another nice search feature. This is the "Quick Search Icon", where all results will be loaded even faster (on and off in the extension settings).
After clicking on the search, you will see results in all selected (depending on the settings) services.
It is worth noting that this extension does its job very well and can be very useful for those who are engaged in photography, are directly related to working with images, etc.
Watch a video on how to use the PhotoTracker Lite extension:
Despite all the disadvantages that can happen when using these services and applications, they are still the best that exist today.
Every novice Internet user asks the question: how to search by pictures? Let's look at a simple example. You have found beautiful sneakers or any other product in the online store. Then you download his image to your computer desktop and drop it to a friend to evaluate your choice.
Let's say a friend also liked the sneakers, but you cannot buy them right now - you are waiting for the salary, which should be paid out in a week.
Google Image Search
On the long-awaited payday, you come home drunk in the evening, go to the search engine and then you realize that you have forgotten on which site you found this image. Even after two hours of digging through history, you will not find the page where the coveted Buy button is located. How to be now?
But don't despair!Go to Yandex and click "Search by pictures". Now you can upload here a photo of sneakers that you downloaded to your desktop a week ago. And even if your wife or husband “carefully” cleaned it and deleted the photo, you will download it from your correspondence with a friend.
How image search works and how it differs from regular search
How to correctly search for a photo by a sample on the Internet? As a rule, the search engine cannot understand what kind of photo it showed in the results. It focuses on the words that are found next to the picture located on the sites that the search engine found. As a last resort, he pays attention to the words written in the attributes (img tag). And since the search engine judges the picture only by indirect signs, it remains a "black box" for him.
Therefore, if you give a request “ black bmw", A black" Mercedes" and even " Porsche Cayenne"! Although such flaws are corrected manually with the help of assessors who look through the results with their eyes, this only happens in the case of the most frequently entered queries.
The fact is that you cannot find a photo on the Internet by a sample if it is a photo of poor quality. You will also not be able to find the original in high resolution or find a photo of a person who will be said to be such and such an artist, poet or a great personality described at least on one Internet resource.
Finally, the photo can be one of a series (if it is a photo essay or a photo session), and then you will want to search for the rest of the images in order to understand the essence. How can all this be done?
Let's take another example. You saw a chest of drawers in the photo and wanted to know where and at what price such furniture is sold. If you enter the query in words, it will only complicate things. After all, you need to somehow upload a picture to a search engine, and the latter must understand what exactly is in the photo, and then give answers to all your questions.
Until recently, the search engine could not perform such operations, but now it can. We will tell you how to find a picture by picture using Yandex or Google... We especially note that Yandex has learned to conduct such a search quite recently!
However, the very essence of such a search scheme is so intricate that many are not interested in it. To simplify completely, the picture seems to be broken into small fragments, or virtual words, and then the search proceeds according to the same scheme as in the case of a regular search. Roughly speaking, the search engine is looking for the same set of virtual words, and at the very top positions of the search there will be photos that are most similar to the image uploaded by the user.
How to search in Google by picture, image. Step by step guide
And now we will take a closer look at how to search by image in Google. To start this kind of search, click on the "Pictures" button. Next, click on the image of the camera, which is located in the right corner of the Google search (for more details, see the photo).
Now you have two options to upload the necessary photo or image to the search engine - this is the address (for this, copy the address by clicking on the photo with the right mouse button and clicking on the "copy image URL" button).
Second way - download from your computer. In the photo you can see the URL of the picture from the official Wikipedia website.
Search by photo, picture in Google Such an image search on Google will return the following picture:
The search engine says that in the photo - Albert Einstein in his youth... In parallel, he offers to view the same image, only smaller or larger. Finally, you have the opportunity to examine similar images and see the web pages below them, where the file is graphically located.
Also in the Google search you can enter qualifying words. Let me give you a simple example: You want to know the details about the fate of this person. To do this, enter the word "Biography", which will lead you to the pages where the search found the image you uploaded and where the biography of the person drawn in this picture is described.
In fact, there is and the third way to upload a photo or picture to Google (except for specifying a graphic file and downloading from your own computer). This third method is suitable for Google Chrome browser users. While in the search engine of this browser, move the mouse over the picture or photo on the page that interests you for certain reasons. For example, you want to know if the real photo was posted by your virtual girlfriend, or if this is a photo of some actress or model. Now click on the button "Find this image on Google", as shown in the photo below.
This option will throw you into the window of the already familiar Google search engine by pictures with all the information about your girlfriend's photo. As you can see, it is quite easy and fast to search for images in Google!
How to search in Yandex by picture, image. Step-by-step instruction
Yandex acquired such a tool quite recently. This innovative technology is called "Computer vision" and additional code name "Siberia"... In this case, as in Google, the picture seems to be split into many virtual words (this includes image boundaries, areas of contrast change, and much more).
Then the entire database is searched for this specific set of virtual words in other photographs or pictures.
Only after this is the selection of those images in which the virtual words are in exactly the same order as in the original loaded image. Searching by a picture in Yandex is as easy as in Google, and some of the nuances are almost identical. For example, in the right search area for a photo in Yandex, there is a camera icon. It is on it that you need to click to download the image (see photo below).
In the event that you have the URL of the required photo, paste it into the graphical search bar and just click the "Find" button. To find out the URL of the image, click on the web page where the photo is located, right-click and select one of the context menu items - "Copy Image Address"... If you use any other, the name of the menu may change, but the essence remains the same.
To load the image into the search from your computer desktop, click on the camera icon, as shown in the screenshot below.
Image search by URL in Yandex Now you will be taken to the next page, which will look like this:
It is not difficult to understand that on this the photographs depict the great physicist of the twentieth century - Albert Einstein... However, in Google it is more understandable, although this is a subjective opinion. We hope that Yandex developers will still work on this nuance. Search by photo in Yandex allows you to sort the found pictures by the type of graphic files (in other words, by format).
We especially note that this browser keeps a history of all searches, and this also applies to image searches in Yandex. So if the need arises, just go to history and view or delete images.
How to find a person by photo in Google or Yandex. Step by step guide
How to find a person by photo on the Internet? For this, there is a special service TinEye. First of all, you should go to tineye.comwhere you will see the following picture (see screenshot).
As you can see, here, just like in Google, there are two options for downloading a photo of the person you are interested in - downloading from a computer or specifying a URL. After the photo is uploaded, a large list of images and photos will appear, under which are the pages with the location of these photos.
Although searching for a person's photo on the Internet using this service is more effectivethan with the help of Yandex or Google, new photos do not appear soon in the TinEye database, so if your friend posted a new photo yesterday, the search may not give any results at all. Another minus - lack of an option to search for similar images and photos, that is, the server searches only for an exact match.
If you know at least some information about the person you are looking for (for example, residence address, full name, age), you can use the search in the most popular social networks or on dating sites:
- Kismia;
- Mamba.ru;
- Photocountry.
This method is not only simple, but also quite effective.
There is even a special "Advanced Search" in social networks, where you can enter the date of birth, the university where the sought-for person studied, the city and country of residence, skype and other data that you have (including age).
conclusions
And, as always, a short summary:
- You can search for pictures for any purpose: to find a person or find web pages with useful information about great personalities, etc.;
- The main difference between image search and ordinary search is that the picture is broken down into small fragments, or virtual words, and then the search proceeds according to the same scheme. Roughly speaking, the search engine is looking for the same set of virtual words, and at the very top positions of the search there will be photos that are most similar to the image uploaded by the user.
- You can search by photographs of people or pictures using:
- (images);
- Yandex ("Computer Vision");
- TinEye (www.tineye.com).
- There are two ways to upload a photo or image to the image search engine - from your computer or using a URL. For Google Chrome, there is a third way - move the mouse over the picture or photo on the page that interests you, and click on the button "Find this image in Google".
If you have any questions, feel free to ask them in the comments.
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The topic of doubles has long haunted many people: some want to be like some kind of star, others just dream of finding a person who looks like themselves, while others just became interested in this by chance. As a rule, these people (especially if they are not very good at a computer) are united by one thing: they got to some site that promises to find their double, they sent an SMS (most often the service did not even say that it would withdraw money, but simply under the guise of checking) - and as a result, instead of the found double, we saw a message that the search was performed, the double was not found (and a certain amount of money was withdrawn from the phone ...).
In this short article I want to tell you a few simple (in my opinion) ways to find your double from a photo, without any trick and loss of money. And so, let's get started ...
What do you need to find a double?
1. A computer with an Internet connection (this is obvious 🙂).
2. A photograph of the person for whom you are going to look for doubles. It is best if it is an ordinary photo without processing by different editors (photoshop, etc.). The most important thing is that the person captured in the photo looks directly at you from it, so that the face is not turned to the side or down (the accuracy of the search depends on this). Yes, one more detail, it is desirable that the background in the picture be some kind of neutral (white, gray, etc.). A full-length photograph is not needed - just a face is enough.
Option number 1 - search for doubles among celebrities
Website: http://www.pictriev.com/
The PicTriev.com site is the first one worth paying attention to. It's very easy to use:
- go to the site (link above) and click the "Upload image" button;
- then choose your prepared photo;
- then the service thinks for 5-10 seconds. - and gives you the results: the age of the person in the photo, his gender, and famous people the photo looks like (by the way, the percentage of similarity is calculated automatically). The service is especially useful for those people who want to be like someone else - changed their image a little, took a picture, uploaded a photo and looked in which direction the percentage of similarity changed.
Figure: 1.pictriev - search for doubles in a male photo (photo looks like Phoenix Joaquin, 8% similarity)
By the way, the service (in my opinion) works better with female photos. The service almost accurately determined the gender and age of a person. The woman in the photo is most similar to Phoenix Edwige (26% similarity).
Option number 2 - search for a double through search engines
This method will live as long as the search engines live (well, or until they block the option to search for pictures, based on the picture (sorry for the tautology)).
In addition, the method will yield more and more accurate results every year (as search engine algorithms develop). There are a lot of search engines, I will give a small instruction on how to search in Google by a photo.
1. First, go to the site https://www.google.ru and open a search by images (see Fig. 3).
Figure: 3. Google Image Search
3. Then upload your photo and Google searches for similar photos.
As a result, we see that the woman in the photo looks like Sofia Vergara (the results will contain a lot of photos similar to yours).
By the way, in a similar way, you can find similar people in Yandex, and indeed any other search engines that can search by photo. Can you imagine what scope for testing? What if a new search engine comes out tomorrow or new, more advanced algorithms appear ?! Therefore, this method is the most reliable and promising ...
Where else can you look?
1. http://celebrity.myheritage.com - on this site you can find a double among celebrities. Before searching, you need to register. While it works for free, it is possible to install an application for a mobile phone.
2. http://www.tineye.com/ - a site with a huge number of photos. If you sign up for it and upload a photo, you can scan it for similar people.
3. play-analogia.com is a good site for looking for doubles, but recently it is often unavailable. Maybe the developers have abandoned it?
This concludes the article. To be honest, I have never been specifically interested in and deeply studied this topic, so I will be very grateful for comments and constructive additions.
And the last - do not get fooled by various promises about finding similar people for SMS - in 90% of cases this is a hoax, unfortunately ...
There are several services on the Internet that allow you to find similar pictures for your photo. This is not just a search for a description of an image or a synonym for its name. Developers create amazing technologies that scan the arrangement of colors, style, objects in the image and look for suitable copies on the web. Each service approaches search in its own way. In this article, I will describe the most popular services and methods of photo search.
TinEye is a convenient search engine for finding similar images by photo
TinEye is a Canadian similar image search service that provides additional search options. The site is considered one of the first search engines to provide this opportunity. The service was created in 2008. To search for pictures, he needs to provide any image, even a low-quality thumbnail will do. The developers promise in the future to provide the ability to subscribe to pictures, copies of which will appear on the network.
The system allows you to find pictures on all resources on the Internet. For all popular browsers there is a special plugin that allows you to search for pictures directly from the browser toolbar. The TinEye service has identified the unknown soldier from an image taken in Normandy. After that, on one of the American sites, they found a list of the people in the photo.
The TinEye service is quite simple to use, despite the fact that it is in English.
To find a similar picture from a photo, you need:
Right under your image there is a "Best match" item. Here you can choose which images will be shown in the results - largest / smallest, oldest by date added, etc.
Find a similar image by picture in Yandex Images
The most popular search engine in Russia is Yandex, which also invites everyone to find any image from a photo. To search for any picture, visit the "Pictures" section at https://yandex.ua/images/?rdrnd\u003d753106&redircnt\u003d1518009530.1 and then follow the instructions:
Google image search
The Google search engine also has a special service that will allow you to find the desired picture on the Internet using the photo you have. You can use any browser to search. The developers of the search engine itself advise us to search for popular objects and persons. This is the only way we have enough chances of success, even if we have a very poor image quality on which to search. To do this, first:
Google Goggles is a powerful mobile phone tool capable of recognizing pictures
The Google Goggles mobile application was created in 2009 for mobile devices under the control of the Android operating system. This application has been specially designed to visually search for pictures, images and some other functions. The application works only with Google servers, on which it takes not text information, but images to display search results.
The principle of this application is very simple. The search is carried out using the existing photo / video camera on the device. Previously, a search required a snapshot of an object to be found on the Internet. Later versions of Goggles allow you to identify objects by simply pointing the camera. After that, your device will receive the results that match your requests.
If you need to find similar images with famous objects, for example, with the Leaning Tower of Pisa, then all you need to do is point the camera lens, and you will get a photo of different sizes and types of the tower. In order to use this program, go from your device to the Play Market and find it in the search.
Application features:
- Google Goggles can identify various objects even while moving. You can turn on not a photo camera, but a video. But there is a slight limitation. Your device must support electronic compass, autofocus, satellite navigation system.
- Some celebrities are included in a special database. Their faces are inviolable for the application, so you will not get results from them.
- In 2010, the developers added a search function for images that are stored in the device's memory.
FindFace - face search by photo
FindFace is a special service that specializes in finding people's faces on social networks. You can probably recall the times when you liked a girl / boy in a cafe, but you do not know anything about them. With the FindFace application, you can find a person by a photo, even if you yourself took it a few minutes ago. The search is based on a special design that uses neural networks. Thus, the search can be performed even by a photo in which a person is captured by a 3/4 face, i.e. sitting in a half turn.
Artificial intelligence develops independently over time thanks to neural networks. Search results get more accurate each time. FindFace spends less than a second to search various databases, going through up to 310 million images during this time. This amount of work is done thanks to special algorithms that convert the photo into a special code, which greatly facilitates the search.
You can try to find any person on Vkontakte as follows:
- Open the page https://findface.ru/.
- Click the "Find the same" button.
- In the middle of the window, click the "Upload photo" button.
- After your image appears, specify the person you need to search for on the social network.
- In the next window, you will be presented with search results that you can adjust to narrow the circle and more suitable people.
Searching by photo from your phone is not as difficult as it might seem. To reveal all the points of this process, we will try to outline how to proceed if you have the original image on your smartphone and if you want to find something related to the image found on the Web.
In the second option, there are not so many solutions to the problem, but so far we have our beloved Google, there is nothing to fear.
Easy peasy
So you are interested in a photo in some article and you want to know more about it. If you haven't turned to your favorite browser yet and are using the built-in Facebook, Twitter or whatever, now is the time to turn to Chrome, Firefox, Dolphin, or whatever you like. Having opened the link in the browser, you long tap to select the image you are interested in and open it in a new tab (this option will appear in the context menu that appears, here we see the option to quickly save the image or immediately start searching for it using Google)
When you see only one image on the page, you just need to copy the link to it and consider that half the work has already been done.
Open a new tab and go to the Google start page. Here we are interested in the "Pictures" section. By clicking on it, you just have to paste the previously copied link to the image into the search bar. Click "Search" and enjoy the results. As a rule, unnecessary information appears among the really useful information. You can refine your search using special filters, but they are not available in the mobile version of the site, so press the “menu” button and put a checkmark in front of the line “full version”. Here you can set all the parameters you are interested in: size, type, time, etc.
An equally interesting option is to choose an image that is close to the one you are interested in and follow the link “similar”.
Now let's consider a situation in which the picture is saved on your smartphone (by the way, you can save it from the browser if the fuss of copying links seems difficult to you)
We go back to the Google start page and to the Pictures tab, but now we select the Upload File tab. When you click on it, you will be able to access your gallery. After choosing the desired photo, repeat the steps from the previous paragraphs and again you will surely find the right one.
Help Apps
Now let's look at other ways to search for information on photos from a smartphone. We do not need a browser for this, but we need third-party applications that will have to be installed in advance.
Google googles(Android) is perhaps the most famous application of this kind. It hasn't received updates for a long time, but it still works. Managing it is extremely simple: launch the camera in the application, point it at the object of interest, take a picture. In a few seconds you will have all the available information on the object of interest. Admittedly, this method works best with well-known objects: brands, landmarks, art objects, etc. Here you can read barcodes and make text translations, even solve Sudoku.
CamFind (Android, iOS) - it works about the same, but is sharpened, basically, for the search for all kinds of goods, it can even help to find online stores where they are sold. But it also easily finds related and simply similar images, saves the search results you are interested in as favorites and allows you to quickly share them. There is a code scanner, recognition of known places and even voice control. Search is available from the gallery and from the camera.
Specialized services
But that is not all. If there is no time to install third-party applications, and fiddling with tabs in the browser is tiresome, you can turn to the appropriate service, the sole purpose of which is precisely to search for images. Tineye has been and remains the best in its class. You can also upload an existing image here or insert a link to it into the search bar (how to get a link of interest - read above). The service finds copies of the image you uploaded and links to the resources where they appeared. Alas, everything works only with one hundred percent similarity. The service also has one more interesting feature - working with flowers. That is, you can upload an image, which Tineye will analyze, select key colors in it and find pictures for you in the same color palette, or, conversely, will select images by the specified colors.
so, these are the three simplest and most versatile ways to search for any images and information on the web, when you have only one picture in your hands. And if not all, then at least one of them will definitely lead you to success.
