Unfortunately, this has been abandoned :(
Since more than a year, uploading an image or signing up just leads to a server error. Was really amazing when it worked.
The creator hasn't been active on Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, HN, etc. either.
No way he passed away. Running a service like this costs quite a bit of money to host all these images and pay for all their bandwidth. He's still probably shelling out $200+/month on this.
* Just saw that they are served by Cloudfront. Probably not that expensive, but still.
Oh no. I never understood why the upload didn't work but had no idea it was abandoned. That really sucks.
For a while now I've been using it a few times a week to find reference images for drawing. I find it beats Pinterest in terms of speed and relevance for most of my searches.
I really really don't want it to go down.
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I just browsed the creator's inactive social media pages. I wonder if they've passed away..?
perceptual hashing is one approach to image similarity, there are many others. The au courant way of doing ANN search is to use embeddings from the powerful pre-trained models. In this tool the creator uses OpenAI's CLIP.
The website is long-gone, but I built something similar-ish ~10 years ago[1] using simple histogram analysis. I was surprised at how far you got with just comparing buckets with certain tolerances. Was a super fun project, but got very little traction. Open sourced it here[2].
Extremely rudimentary :) back then, SURF and SIFT were just starting to get big (they are both obsolete now in favor of more robust machine learning techniques) and I wasn't even doing that.
I have been using this site for a while, however it seems the creator has gone AWOL.
You are not able to sign up nor actually upload images as starting points, which is a shame. The creator does not respond thruogh the site nor twitter. Hasn’t been active either.
Below is an OSS alternative, originating from same engineering as stable diffusion. There is other awesome work in rom1504's Github I recommend exploring as well.
I searched "boobs" in both (my litmus test). The posted one delivers nice boobs, as expected, very fast. This one delivers medical images of breast surgery, some bizarre pictures, and very slowly (tight budget maybe?). When did we lose our way?
What keeps exciting me when you upload a photo of a building and find tiny icons with a somewhat similar architecture, or illustrations, or realistic renders/other photos.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 86.9 ms ] threadHit the lightning at the top of the page to restart from scratch.
I lost a very enjoyable hour going down random rabbit holes of beautiful images.
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Previously on HN ~2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24434165
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsame.energy
I'm not associated with this project in any way.
* Just saw that they are served by Cloudfront. Probably not that expensive, but still.
For a while now I've been using it a few times a week to find reference images for drawing. I find it beats Pinterest in terms of speed and relevance for most of my searches.
I really really don't want it to go down.
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I just browsed the creator's inactive social media pages. I wonder if they've passed away..?
Maybe someone at Tabnine knows...
the author mentions CLIP, but it looks like he made his own variant. i wish i knew what it was since it seems he is now AWOL
(full disclosure: I am an employee who has worked with this team before internally, but I was not associated with this paper)
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WswSywx6TI
[2] https://github.com/dvx/skrch
You are not able to sign up nor actually upload images as starting points, which is a shame. The creator does not respond thruogh the site nor twitter. Hasn’t been active either.
https://rom1504.github.io/clip-retrieval/ (usually performant)
https://github.com/rom1504/clip-retrieval
Other people have done a few alternate front ends already
This one is meant to be functional, but could sure be made prettier
[I'm a part of the Milvus community.]
What keeps exciting me when you upload a photo of a building and find tiny icons with a somewhat similar architecture, or illustrations, or realistic renders/other photos.