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What is Piximilar?

Piximilar searches 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
• selecting multiple colours from a simple palette or an advanced colour wheel to retrieve images containing the same colours

Piximilar can be used in combination with keywords to refine searches on extremely large collections.

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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.