Retrievr – Search Flickr with a sketch

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Retrievr is an interesting new experiment that allows users to search the Flickr photo catalogue graphically by sketching what you want instead of using tags.

For example, look what my crude sketch of an eye yielded (above).

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8 Comments

  1. popnutten says:

    Such du Hund

    Tags beiseite und Bilder mithilfe von Bildern finden: Bei retrievr wird grob ins Suchfeld gescribbelt, was es denn sein soll, ausgeworfen werden entsprechende Flickr Bilder.
    Und das funktioniert? Bei Zeichenkünsten meines Levels klaglos. Aber auch s…

  2. Gail Frederick says:

    I have wondered often if there was a way to find an image or identify one by scanning in a photo. This is not quite the same, but you could try a rough drawing and see if someone has photographed and named say, a statue or a building or a type of animal or plant.

  3. Dominique says:

    It’s a neat concept, though right now I’d say the results are still hit-and-miss. I don’t know if it has more to do with the size of the database available to it or with the algorithm.

    It works primarily, I think, by matching colors rather than outlines. I first tried it with some simple black-and-white sketches and all I got were black-and-white photos.

    See my results at http://villageidiotsavant.blogspot.com/2006/01/searching-flickr-using-sketches.html

  4. peacay says:

    There’s a full review of various ‘draw’n’search’ sites here..

    http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060103-180848

  5. smidigt.se says:

    Retrievr – sök Flickr med teckningar

    Retrievr är ett nytt roligt experiment för att söka efter bilder på Flickr. Med ett enkelt verktyg ritar en teckning av den typen av bilder du vill ha listade. Som synes på bilden ovan fungerar det faktiskt helt OK.
    Via Drawn.

  6. vincent says:

    This is awesome – not very functional yet, obviously, but still.

  7. Zana says:

    Hey this function is so cool ! I am so going to try it !

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