commercial applications for visual search?
This is a video of the google goggles app which does a good job of explaining what the current state of the art in visual search can do. its also being applied to searching patents, product classification based on appearance . This startup is using it for product search. If you had a technology that when you click search takes approx 1 second to search
- 10 million images
- 100 million images
what markets would you investigate? What pain points can you see it solving?
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3 Answers
Healthcare applications:
- Medical imaging (find similar images with diagnosis)
- Medication identification
- Body type analysis
Big problems, big market, big money...
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Security could also be a big player in visual search. I assume the government would love to be able to visually scan everyone that walks into a federal building or airport and do a search for warrants, terror list etc. Same could go for a big sports stadium. I personally wouldnt care what they scan, but then again I enjoy the ads from double click showing up for sites that I have visited. Once my tv can figure out that I have a beard, and stop showing me TAMPON commercials I will be a very happy man! – Frank 14 years ago
Government will pay you the most and demand the least, especially the U.S. government.
-Person identification - imagine the implications for fb profile photos
-Locations - for geolocation apps and travel companies
-Apparel - what are celebs wearing
Perhaps we finally have a way to help TSA learn to search for terrorists... Never mind... But it's a good demonstration of how prejudices are formed
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http://face.com/ does finding untagged pics of you and your friends on facebook. – Ben 14 years ago
