The database obviously contains many freely available images from the Web, including Wikipedia. Uses real facial recognition algorithms to compare a submitted photo with images of about 10 million people. Web app for mobile reverse image searching. So just upload and pin the image you want to search for to see whether there are similar faces on Pinterest. Select the image you want to look-up, and then click on the magnify glass icon at the lower right corner of that image. Very helpful site for people using a mobile device and therefore cannot easily use the links above. Russian search engine Yandex also offers reverse image matching, including image upload.Ĭhinese search engine Baidu also offers reverse photo lookup with image upload.Ĭurrently uses Google, Bing and Yandex to do a reverse image search by making use of the IncandescentAPI.

Just use the link given above, then click the camera icon, and then “browse”. With Google owning probably the largest database of images on the web, chances are high that you find that (or at least a similar) photo.īing now also offers an Image Search (using photo upload or URL), but it is harder to find than Google’s feature. Just upload a photo to Google’s Image Search, and it will find similar images. Their image search is not using face recognition (afaik), but their scale invariant feature technology works nice on face images, too.īut now it is no longer Google alone to offer such a service! So here is a list of search engines that can compare images within a reasonably large database (please send feedback if you know more): Therefore, for some time it was only Google with such a capability.

That can only be done by companies with huge resources. You need to have access to a real huge collection of images, and you need very strong computing power. Some Intelligence Service might have such a database. I’d need to have access to all images of all people of this world to use face recognition for photo lookup.

Reverse Image Search – Searching People by PhotosĮvery few days I get a message from users all over the world, with more or less the same question: I have a photo of someone I am looking for, can you help me find this person on the Internet? (This is usually referred to “ reverse image search“, or “ people search” with photograph images, or “ similar image searching“).

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