Vision
What is visual search?
Visual search finds similar images or frames from a picture or a text description, using visual embeddings.
Updated · Part of What is semantic search?
How it works
- Embed the catalog of images or frames.
- Embed the query picture or phrase.
- Return the nearest catalog rows.
What it is not
It is not a web crawler that looks up an image online, and it is not filename search.
visual search: this, and the thing it is confused with
| This | Not this | |
|---|---|---|
| Catalog | Your images | The public web |
| Query | A picture or a phrase | A filename |
| Hit | A similar row you stored | An internet result |
Where Pixeltable fits
Pixeltable indexes the image or frame column and answers with similarity on that column.
Questions
- How does visual search work?
- Embed the catalog of images or frames. Embed the query picture or phrase. Return the nearest catalog rows.
- What is visual search often confused with?
- It is not a web crawler that looks up an image online, and it is not filename search.