

Just upload a photo to Google’s Image Search, and it will find similar images. Their image search is not using face recognition (afaik), but their scale invariant feature technology works nice on face images, too.īut now it is no longer Google alone to offer such a service! So here is a list of search engines that can compare images within a reasonably large database (please send feedback if you know more): Therefore, for some time it was only Google with such a capability. That can only be done by companies with huge resources. You need to have access to a real huge collection of images, and you need very strong computing power. Some Intelligence Service might have such a database. I’d need to have access to all images of all people of this world to use face recognition for photo lookup. Reverse Image Search – Searching People by PhotosĮvery few days I get a message from users all over the world, with more or less the same question: I have a photo of someone I am looking for, can you help me find this person on the Internet? (This is usually referred to “ reverse image search“, or “ people search” with photograph images, or “ similar image searching“).
