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Visual similarity search for large image collections
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.
Why visual similarity search?
Visual similarity search is ideal for:
- stock photography websites
- digital image archives
- public or private multi-million image collections
- textile, flooring, product manufacturers
Why multicolour search?
Multicolour search is ideal for any large product family that relies heavily on colour like:
- skin and hair cosmetics products
- interior decorating products
- paint manufacturers
- fashion
The Multicolour Process
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Sounds great, how do I get it?
If you are interested in licensing Idée’s
Piximilar technology, please drop us an email at 
and a member of our team will contact you shortly.
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
Multicolour Search
Use multicolour search to navigate multi-million image collections
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