Idée Inc Testing
I found a company called Idée inc.
who makes really neat products for searching images. Their products are cool because they don’t rely soley on tags to find images. Instead they use attribuates of the actual image. I must say it seems rather magical and mysterious to me.
Here is how one product, TinEye
, it works according to their website
“Every day TinEye’s spiders crawl the web for additional images. Using sophisticated pattern recognition algorithms, TinEye creates a unique and compact digital signature or ‘fingerprint’ for each one and adds it to the index.
When you want to find out where an image is being used on the web, you submit it to TinEye. The attributes of the image are analyzed instantly, and its fingerprint is compared to the fingerprint of every single image in the TinEye search index. The result? A detailed list of any websites using that image, worldwide”
They also have something called Idée Lab where you can try out their technologies yourself
http://labs.ideeinc.com/
I wondered a couple of things about this
1) Exactly what attributes are they looking at? What goes into the making of these picture signatures or “digital fingerprints”?
2) If I were a tester working for Idée how would I test their applications?
I will post some of my thoughts and notes.
