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Picitup – Search your images visually

Picitup

Picitup is a search engine that allows you to search for images which is similar to Google Images. However, Picitup offers some new and unique functionality as compared to Google Images. With Picitup, you are able to find “Similar pictures” and filtrating search based on different criteria such as color or faces.

Picitup has a patented pending algorithms that is able compute thousands of visual aspects of that image, such as the corners of one’s smile, a product title or a landscapes texture; and retrieve only images with significant similarity to the original image. In order to achieve fast result. all those comparisons are done in real time by using several Teraflops of computing power, equivalent to thousands of Intel Pentium processors.

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As for the fun part, Picitup provides a celebrity face match service. You can upload your photos and through Picitup search algorithm, you will be able to receive their ten celebrity look alikes. You can try it out here.

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3 Comments »

Comment by seo hat
2008-06-02 06:39:09

Visual recognition software is getting better and better. I remember using the celebrity lookalike think around 5 years ago and the results I got were far from accurate.

 
Comment by Karen
2008-06-03 13:26:02

Great stuff…I’ll try it. I’m currious to know who celebrities are similar with me :) .

 
Comment by danny
2008-07-11 14:28:09

Cool site, I see that a newer version of the site is now running and it is much better – Check it out – http://www.picitup.com

 
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