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Title: Retrievr
Post by: blobrana on October 18, 2006, 01:45:45 PM

Text-powered search is so fundamental to life online that alternatives seem like far-flung fantasy.
Programmer Christian Langreiter, a 27-year-old Austrian, was hired by a European software company to make one alternative real. His creation: Retrievr, a search engine for images based entirely on visual input.
Retrievr sifts through photographs stored in Yahoo's Flickr database by using mouse-powered doodles as its search criteria.

Source (http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116068684427191119-jsP5tYgqQ9KHifBYyLa7OKoyUqc_20071016.html?mod=blogs)
labs.systemone.at/retrievr (http://labs.systemone.at/retrievr)

Title: Re: Retrievr
Post by: iamaboringperson on October 18, 2006, 02:16:46 PM

That looks like cool stuff.

It's kind of like an idea I had years ago. Mine was an images search engine like googles (or alta-vista's), however you would have selected an image, and chose 'find like this'

Title: Re: Retrievr
Post by: X-ray on October 18, 2006, 04:01:47 PM

It is pattern recognition, and is not really new. Look out for future advances in radiology and other medical imaging, such as computer assisted diagnosis in mammography.

http://fuzzy.fzk.de/~rainer/new/work/node7.html

And thoracic cross-sectional imaging:

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/horwood01computerassisted.html

I must add that the pattern recognition software on airport X-ray units must be fairly mature by now, and must work on the same principles as computer assisted diagnosis.

Title: Re: Retrievr
Post by: Doobrey on October 20, 2006, 05:12:49 PM

Nice idea, it certainly makes searching for images a bit easier, although I can guess what most people have been drawing !

I'll save you all the bother.
A great set of jugs (http://flickr.com/photos/chrisp/116440996/)
A lovely pair of hooters (http://flickr.com/photos/tiger_empress/216211145/)
More baps than you could ever handle (http://flickr.com/photos/magdalengreen/118347658/)

Finally..
the biggest pair of tits in the world. (http://flickr.com/photos/84474308@N00/192557123/)