How to build a simple AI photo search engine

How to build a simple AI photo search engine

摘要

Have you ever wondered how you could build your own Google Image Search? This tutorial will walk you through so you can build your own in 15 minutes.

Often the most obvious kind of search engine to build would be to search for text. However, for all types of data that are not convertible to text - e.g Music, text-like searching is not always feasible.

So how would you build a image search engine? a few ideas come to mind: To compare the pixels of the photos: this will only find exact same photos or with different lighting conditions. Or we can use AI to convert a photo into a text that describes the photo: this, for example, will struggle to differentiate between different kinds of cats, if it can only infer that the photo contains a cat but not which breed.