Espion performs visual searches
updated 03:25 pm EST, Thu January 10, 2002
Idée is demonstrating its visual search application running natively on OS X: Espion is a robust image comparison application that allows users to perform visual searches for images. It takes an original image and compares it against others to find copies, altered or similar versions. The application displays pairs of matched images and details the likelihood of the match as well as the degree of differences between the original image and an image in question. The algorithms search based on colour composition, spatial distribution, object shape, texture and other visual attributes and characteristics.
