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Masterfile Corporation licenses Piximilar, Idée's visual search technology

Piximilar powers the 'SimSearch™' function on the Masterfile stock photography website.

About Masterfile

Masterfile is a stock image agency/library.

From print advertising to websites, Masterfile acquires, organizes, distributes and licenses images for commercial use. Their clients include advertising agencies, designers, publishers, multimedia producers and corporations throughout the world. Today, Masterfile is one of the largest independent stock image companies in the world, among more than a thousand competitors.

Visual Similarity using SimSearch™

Choose an initial image, and instantly find visually similar images. Be it shape, theme, color or texture–visual search helps you instantly "find more like this".

Cast a wide net and target your search by combining keyword and visual search.

Automatically access all similar images in an image collection in milliseconds or less.

What is Piximilar?

Piximilar is powerful visual search software. It enables website users to search quickly and intuitively through very large collections for visually similar images.

Piximilar delivers visual search results with unparalleled speed and precision. Users can find the images they are looking for faster and more naturally than they could with keyword searching alone.

Using an image to search for similar images – what better way to search?

Piximilar provides:

• Accurate and fast image search results by integrating visual search and keyword technology
• More relevant image search results for website users
• A new and intuitive search method to users by allowing users to search for images "more like this"
• Minimal wait time for image retrieval

Performing a SimSearch™

Perform a visual search using SimSearch in three easy steps:

• Find an image:
  Use a keyword, category or image identifier to initiate your search
• Click the icon:
  To find more images like the one you have chosen, click the SimSearch icon
  
• Get "more like this":
  Find visually similar images instantly!

Modify Your Search

SimSearch allows you to adjust the level of visual or thematic similarity:

• More Thematic:
  Results are displayed primarily by keyword or category, with a secondary focus on visual similarity
• More Visual:
  Results are displayed primarily by similar color, shape or texture, with a secondary focus on theme
• Equally Thematic and Visual:
  Results are displayed with equal focus on theme and visual similarity.
• Try visual search on Masterfile now.