Re: tineye.com - warning

[Don Roberts <droberts@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Wow, sorry, Alan.  I am on a Mac and so seldom am aware of these things.  But I didn't have to sign in to see the info.  I just revisited the URL I had sent and got just the same page with the Tineye information but no request to sign in.  If you are wary of this but still want to find out more about Tineye visit the Idee web site.  I think Tineye is their product.
Don

On 2/12/10 2:51 PM, lookaround360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Guys,

Beee careful what you look for. A virus found me!  I went to
makeuseof.com and signed in. Got the confirm message, etc. Then I
clicked on the URL in this message for info on tineye. Bam!!! Norton
nailed a high-threat virus.  

Hmmmm!  Should I notify makeuseof and/or tineye?

AZ


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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [SPAM] Re: tineye.com
From: Don Roberts <droberts@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, February 12, 2010 2:43 pm
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
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They are not looking for an exact match but they are looking for the 
same photo.  They claim that even if it has been edited or modified they 
could find it.  They use the Mona Lisa as an example.  A good 
explanation is here:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/tineye-searching-for-images-with-image/
Don

On 2/12/10 12:06 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
    

On Fri, February 12, 2010 11:30, PhotoRoy6@xxxxxxx wrote:
   
      

I think they are making direct matches. When they say content I think they
mean if you load a picture of a handbag they don't look for handbags but
only  for your specific image of a handbag. So they are searching for a
pattern that  looks exactly like your pattern (your image). I assume they
are
looking at 0 and  1 but there may be other ways to do this.
     
        

They're clearly not looking for an exact match.  I suspect it's something
on the order of a much-reduced size and then some kind of "degree of
difference" metric; but it may be something more sophisticated.