Search online for a particular type of image today, and the results will reflect more or less exclusively the text that’s associated with them. A new technology presented by two Google researchers last week, however, promises to use visual cues in the images themselves to rank their relevance. In a paper titled “PageRank for Product Image Search,” Google researchers Yushi Jing and Shumeet Baluja presented VisualRank, a technology much like Google’s PageRank system for prioritizing Web page search results but that provides a visually based ranking of images instead.
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New Google Tech Could Make Image Searches Smarter
Posted by: Katherine Noyes April 28, 2008 01:39 PMSearch online for a particular type of image today, and the results will reflect more or less exclusively the text that’s associated with them. A new technology presented by two Google researchers last week, however, promises to use visual cues in the images themselves to rank their relevance. In a paper titled “PageRank for Product Image Search,” Google researchers Yushi Jing and Shumeet Baluja presented VisualRank, a technology much like Google’s PageRank system for prioritizing Web page search results but that provides a visually based ranking of images instead.