We have been looking for a search engine that only search based on text inputs but also supports other formats like images, audio and video. For example if we input an eye pattern then the engine will come up with the persons having similar eye pattern, if we upload an audio clip then it will provide us the audio files having the similar track.
This search engine can be widely used in various sectors including defense and research. Google has come forward with its innovative algorithm covering one step to this concept. Computers used to be blind, and now they can see. Thanks to increasingly sophisticated algorithms, computers today can recognize and identify the Eiffel Tower, the Mona Lisa or a can of Budweiser.
Though there are still a lot of hurdles in the path to the implementation of this technology as for now it can only match and recognize popular patterns but not the regular one like a toothbrush or a tennis ball. But rapid progress, coupled with the growing number of brilliant minds taking up the challenge, is making intelligent robo-eyesight within reach. With time the system is expected to learn and improve itself to recognize more common items.
The product based on this is contained in a service called Goggles which exists as a standalone application for Android phones and as a feature of the Google Mobile App for the iPhone. With Goggles, the user snaps a picture, which is transmitted across cellular networks to Google's servers. Google's computers then tell the phone what they recognized in the photo. This process can take only a second or two and sometimes even less for the Google's Goggles.
This search engine can be widely used in various sectors including defense and research. Google has come forward with its innovative algorithm covering one step to this concept. Computers used to be blind, and now they can see. Thanks to increasingly sophisticated algorithms, computers today can recognize and identify the Eiffel Tower, the Mona Lisa or a can of Budweiser.
Though there are still a lot of hurdles in the path to the implementation of this technology as for now it can only match and recognize popular patterns but not the regular one like a toothbrush or a tennis ball. But rapid progress, coupled with the growing number of brilliant minds taking up the challenge, is making intelligent robo-eyesight within reach. With time the system is expected to learn and improve itself to recognize more common items.
The product based on this is contained in a service called Goggles which exists as a standalone application for Android phones and as a feature of the Google Mobile App for the iPhone. With Goggles, the user snaps a picture, which is transmitted across cellular networks to Google's servers. Google's computers then tell the phone what they recognized in the photo. This process can take only a second or two and sometimes even less for the Google's Goggles.
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