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Image Search:What is Image Search?

Last Updated:Mar 08, 2024

Image Search is a platform that uses deep learning and computer vision as its core technologies to retrieve similar images. Image Search allows you to extract image characteristics and build an image search engine for image searches. Image Search uses your image file as an input and returns a collection of similar images that are stored in an image gallery. Image Search is applicable to a wide range of scenarios, such as snap shopping, product recommendations, recommendations based on similar images, and copyright protection.

Features

  • Product image search: This feature searches for images in a product image gallery and helps you find products that are similar or identical to the product in your input image. You can also obtain the information about the products.

  • Generic image search: This feature searches for images in a large image gallery and helps you find images that are similar or identical to your input image. The images contain the subjects or elements that are similar or identical to those in your input image.

  • Fabric image search: This feature searches for fabrics in a fabric image gallery and helps you find fabrics that are similar or identical to the fabric in your input image. You can also obtain the information about the fabrics.

  • Trademark image search: This feature searches for trademarks in a trademark image gallery and helps you find trademarks that are similar or identical to the trademark in your input image. You can also obtain the information about the trademarks.

  • Copyrighted image search: This feature searches for images in a self-managed copyrighted image gallery and helps you find the original image on which modifications, such as image concatenation, logo changing, watermark addition, rotation, partial image changing, and color changing, may be performed based on your input image.

  • Furniture and household supply image search: This feature searches for furniture and household supply in a furniture and household supply image gallery and helps you find furniture and household supply that are similar or identical to the furniture and household supply in your input image. You can also obtain the information about the furniture and household supply.

  • Industrial hardware image search: This feature searches for industrial hardware in an industrial hardware image gallery and helps you find industrial hardware that is similar or identical to the industrial hardware in your input image. You can also obtain the information about the industrial hardware.

Note

The use scenarios vary based on the service type. You cannot change the service types after you create an image search instance. Therefore, make sure that the service type you select meets your business requirements. If you have questions, email us at imagesearch-support@list.alibaba-inc.com or join the DingTalk group 35035130.

Benefits

  • High accuracy: Provides search services that have relatively high-accuracy in the industry based on large amounts of training data and constant improvements. Constant improvements are made to improve the efficiency of image search.

  • Fast response: Responds to queries in milliseconds based on ultra-large-scale clustering and quantization-based indexing.

  • Large amounts of data: Scans tens of billions of images for each search based on the large-scale search engine.

  • API operations: Allows you to call API operations to add or delete images in real time.

  • High flexibility: Allows you to set a combination of search criteria to meet various business requirements. This ensures high efficiency and high flexibility.

  • High data security: Uses asymmetric encryption to protect your data that is stored in the cloud. You can implement access control based on user permissions.

  • Customization: Allows you to customize the features based on your business requirements.