Ratchet Up (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Google Image Swirl organizes image search results into groups and sub-groups, based on their visual and semantic similarity and presents them in an intuitive exploratory interface. There's this branch in computer science and statistics for vision research. Normally, if you ever hear about it in the news it's in the context of spotting terrorists in security tapes or facial recognition checkpoints (you...
Googland (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Official Google Research Blog : Explore Images with Google Image Swirl Posted by Yushi Jing and Henry Rowley, Google Research Earlier this week, we announced the Labs launch of Google Image Swirl , an experimental search tool that organizes image-search results. We hope to take this opportunity to explain some of the research underlying this feature, and why it is an important area of focus for computer...
Official Google Research Blog (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Posted by Yushi Jing and Henry Rowley, Google Vision Research Earlier this week, we announced the Labs launch of Google Image Swirl , an experimental search tool that organizes image-search results. We hope to take this opportunity to explain some of the research underlying this feature, and why it is an important area of focus for computer vision research at Google. As the Web becomes more "visual,"...
Unofficial SEO Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Google has released Google Image Swirl, a similar images explorer that is using the wonder wheel flash visualization from web search results. Here's an example of working of Google Image Swirl. (...) Post from: PageTraffic SEO Blog Now updated thrice a day! Google Image Swirl Making Similar Images Exploration More Refined
Panoramic Images of the World (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
A couple of days ago Google launched a new way of viewing images, the Image Swirl . Still in Beta phase, it attempts to collect groups of related images together, presenting them in clusters. The user selects a cluster of interest, which then expands into it's one circle, still connected to previous 'higher' circles on the tree. In this way you dive down into ever more specific types of images. Concept...
information aesthetics (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Google Image Swirl [googlelabs.com] is an experimental feature in Google Labs which is based on new computer vision research to cluster similar images into representative groups in a visual, exploratory interface. For example, for an " apple " query, images of the fruit appears next to many products or logos of Macintosh. Users can then click on any thumbnail and a cluster of images will...
TechConnect Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
The Google Labs team has just rolled out a new project which is aimed at making image search more fun by bringing together technologies used for Similar Images and Picasa Face Recognition. Dubbed Image Swirl, the experimental image search tool puts together similar images in groups, and each group is shown on the results page as a thumbnail. Clicking on that thumbnail will make the group swirl into...
Digital Media Minute (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
As basic as images are to the Internet it’s no surprise that Google’s approach to image search, born back in 2001, continues to evolve. Good thing too because it was always pretty slow going, plodding through pages of images results that didn’t really have what you wanted. Recently they added a link to “similar images” [...]
Google Tutor (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Google has changed how we search for images, or rather… how we find images we can use. By introducing features such as similar images, you can find more images that relate to the type of photo you are interested in from the search results. A cool new feature gracing Google Labs, is Google Image Swirl. Google [...]
Pocket-lint (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Interface for finding similar pictures Google has launched a new product to its experimental " labs " offerings called Image Swirl . It's an interface for sifting through the piles of pictures that appear when you conduct an image search and aims to group similar pictures together. Google says that Image Swirl "builds on new computer vision research to cluster similar images into representative...
Internet's Best Secrets (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Image Search with Google Image Swirl Searching for images is becoming increasingly easy with these new features Google offers us from time to time. Now, they've introduced Google Image Swirl . Stacking similar images that you can then easily navigate through, this new lab feature is certainly attractive. This Image Swirl is an evolution of the similar image feature that also began as a Labs experiment...
creativebits (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Google after introducing Similar Images Search which recently graduated from Labs, now brings us another lab project: Google Image Swirl . read more
Technotips (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Google labs with another new experimental work, Google Image Swirl has been rated most within 3 days as all must have a try on it.OK, now i come to the point, As you have a view on Google image swirl you could have understand as it organizes image search results into groups and sub-groups , based on their visual and semantic similarity and presents them in an intuitive exploratory interface. You could...
The SEO Blog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Google has added another feather to it's Image search results, by adding a functionality to cluster the similar images into representative groups with exploratory interface. Example I did a search on Image Swirl for [statue of liberty], wherein I got 12 image thumbnail as shown below Image - 1 Google Image Swirl for Statue of Liberty You can find the group of images you are interested, and then you...
Google Blogoscoped (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Google has released an interactive similar images explorer. The app is called Google Image Swirl, and it's using the wonder wheel Flash visualization you might know from web search results. Here's how it works: you enter a query, like "lion". After a bit of loading, and if your keyword is supported (not all queries are), you'll be presented with some visual base categories Google could find:...
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