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Visual similarity and multicolor searching
Piximilar Visual Search
Piximilar Visual Search is an API that allows you to search through large image collections, without keywords or metadata, to instantly retrieve visually similar images.
Users can search for images by:
- selecting an existing image in your collection to retrieve similar images
- uploading their own image to retrieve visually similar images from your collection
Piximilar can be used in combination with keywords to refine searches on extremely large collections.
What powers Piximilar?
Piximilar’s visual similarity technology uses sophisticated algorithms to analyze hundreds of image attributes such as colour, shape, texture, luminosity, complexity, objects and regions.
These attributes form a unique visual signature and are arranged by our software into a visual index of your image set. The compact image signature is calculated quickly, stored efficiently and used to facilitate searches for similar images using an optimized and accurate comparison engine.
Piximilar visual similarity search is the result of over a decade of image processing research; with unmatched speed and accuracy, it is by far the most widely used visual search solution for the stock photography industry.
Piximilar Multicolor Search
The Piximilar Multicolor API is an application programming interface that allows developers to integrate multicolor search into any website or application. Once integrated, Piximilar Multicolor allows users to search images based on color.
Idée uses Piximilar Multicolor Search in its lab to search over 10 million Creative Commons images from Flickr based on colors. Have a look.
Why multicolour search?
Multicolor search is ideal for any product family that relies heavily on color. Imagine being able to search an entire photo collection based on multicolors, or a fashion and clothing ecommerce website.
The Multicolour Process
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Sounds great, how do I get it?
If you are interested in licensing Piximilar Visual Search of Piximilar Multicolor, please get in touch, we'd would love to talk.
Clients
Testimonials
“SimSearch will greatly enhance our critical business initiatives by providing
powerful new search tools for our users. Idée has helped us take enormous steps
to achieve these objectives. – Visual search will be an absolute necessity in
the future.”
John McDonald
Vice President
Masterfile Corporation
How It Works
Piximilar Multicolr
Search by color
Piximilar Visual Search Lab
Use visual search to search a 3 million image collection
Piximilar: Visual Search for Stock
Piximilar integrated into a stock photography website
What The Press Is Saying
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“Multicolor search is a fantastic tool.”
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“Multicolor Search: Easily the most useful color-based search.”Brain Pickings
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