TinEye Image Search for Dating Photos
Contributed by: Editor on Wednesday, July 01 2009 @ 09:17 am
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Do you think that dating profile picture is too good to be true? A poster in our forum name Drannik (see Post) recommends using TinEye Image Search Engine. With TinEye you can upload an image or paste a url location of the page or image and the reverse image search engine will attempt to find and return similar images on the internet. If the image is found in a number of different location on the internet then it is a pretty good chance that the dating profile you are viewing is not the person in the picture.
The image search works very well. In tests, the image search return 96 results when it searched for images similar to this test Will Smith picture I used.
Results included the exact same image to cropped and larger versions of the picture. It even found manipulations of the image like this one with Oprah's face (I believe) photo shopped onto Will's head.
It even found images with different backgrounds, hair and clothes.
What TinEye does not do is return other images of Will Smith. It just returns the same image or modified version of it. Maybe we will see a facial recognition feature in the near future? TinEye works by using image identification technology rather than keywords, file names or water marks. Currently there are over 1 billion images in the search engines index catalogue
To try out this reverse image search engine, visit TinEye[*1] .