2007-06-06T06:08:40-07:00 Practical Ecommerce info@practicalecommerce.com http://www.practicalecommerce.com/ Copyright 2007 Confluence Publishing DBA Practical Ecommerce http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/438/Likecom-Offers-A-Different-Way-To-Find-Sell-Products/#comment3002 2007-06-06T06:08:40-07:00

If any developer is interested in these sort of algorithms, you can find tons of peer review papers on the subject of Computer Vision (image analysis, image & object recognition) here: http://www.visionbib.com/bibliography/applicat810.html I have no doubt that "Riya" researchers are reading those publications. I do have a pretty good idea of what algorithms that "Riya" are (or is) using. There are some standard ones, and there are advanced ones. Advanced ones have lower misclassification error. This is something that I have thought of to develop a medical imaging decision support systems to help physicians in their diagnosis. There are already commercial image recognition retrieval systems available today at hospitals & clinics. They do help doctors give them a quick hint of what's the likely disease from X-rays, or MRI in front of him. Instead of the physician having to do the search from the medical imaging database, it just scan the image in , then the retrieval...

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/438/Likecom-Offers-A-Different-Way-To-Find-Sell-Products/#comment3001 2007-06-06T05:47:30-07:00

I completely agree with PixLover here that Munjal is wrong when he says there is no other visual search on the web. As far as I am aware that there are tons of peer reviewed published papers on the subject, with new algorithms emerging all the time from the literatures. I can point out perhaps 30 publications or more of which I have come across. There are other commercial vendors who are doing this as well. Image recognition (image retrieval) is a branch of engineering (or computing) called Computer Vision. Well , how does anyone think that those F-14 , F-15 , F-117 stealth operate? Yep, they operate via image recognition when tracking their ground targets (mobile & static). The fighter plane scan the ground in its wide view angle, then try to matched the image pattern that it receives with the image patterns in its database. Once a match is pinpointed by the computer, plus data gathered from GPS target locator, then the target tracker is locked on to that image on the...

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/438/Likecom-Offers-A-Different-Way-To-Find-Sell-Products/#comment923 2007-03-20T17:05:38-07:00

I think Like.com is very unique and and, as a photographer, I like the simplicity of it. I'm not sure if they only list big sites with a lot of inventory and not small ones like mine.

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/438/Likecom-Offers-A-Different-Way-To-Find-Sell-Products/#comment919 2007-03-20T06:36:50-07:00

PixLover, where are Pixsta's search and results shown? It appears between the lack of information on its site and your post that it is not a search engine for the public to shop, but a back-end for businesses to implement.

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/438/Likecom-Offers-A-Different-Way-To-Find-Sell-Products/#comment874 2007-03-16T22:12:51-07:00

Oh Boy, Like.com is just awesome. I love it ! Nothing like it ;)

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/438/Likecom-Offers-A-Different-Way-To-Find-Sell-Products/#comment868 2007-03-16T10:55:15-07:00

Munjal is wrong when he says there is no other visual search on the web. There is another very strong technology on the web which does visual search and browse. The company is called PIXSTA (Pixsta.com) and is London based. I recently met them and was very impressed with the technology they own. They have several clients running the application by now. They have also put up two demo sites for shoes, called ChezImelda (Chezimelda.com), and for bags (Bagsta.com).