Vision
What is visual search?
Visual search finds similar images or frames from a picture or a text description, using visual embeddings.
Updated · Part of What is semantic search?
How it works
- Embed the catalog of images or frames.
- Embed the query picture or phrase.
- Return the nearest catalog rows.
What it is not
It is not a web crawler that looks up an image online, and it is not filename search.
visual search: this, and the thing it is confused with
| This | Not this | |
|---|---|---|
| Catalog | Your images | The public web |
| Query | A picture or a phrase | A filename |
| Hit | A similar row you stored | An internet result |
Where Pixeltable fits
Pixeltable indexes the image or frame column and answers with similarity on that column.
Questions
How does visual search work?
Embed the catalog of images or frames. Embed the query picture or phrase. Return the nearest catalog rows.
What is visual search often confused with?
It is not a web crawler that looks up an image online, and it is not filename search.
Next step
Install the Pixeltable skill, or sign up for Cloud and run the same file on a hosted database.