Polar Rose „image search engines are all about people” Pawel Rutkowski pawel (at) polarrose (dot) com
Jun 18, 2015
Polar Rose
„image search engines are all about people”
Paweł Rutkowski
pawel (at) polarrose (dot) com
What we do in general?
Image search
Vision technology
People oriented
How does it started ?
Founded in 2004 by Jan Erik Solem
• Vision patent
Academic + swidish goverment grants
Vision team builds prototypes
NVP invests 4.1M € in 2006
Closed beta since August 2007
Public beta run since May 2008
Short on vision technology
3D Model
„Faceprint”
• 90 dimensional vector
Face detection is NOT face recognition
Products
Browser plugin (FF/IE)
Search site
• Duplicate detection
• Matching (aka. PolarBot)
Nametagger
One more is coming in May 2009 !!!
Plugin
Nametagger
Name-what ?
MediaRSS
Javascript widget
• Quickly name people in your gallery
• Browse your gallery grouped by people
• Search your's gallery for given names
Some numbers
Public beta run since May 2008
62M images processed
300k people named
17M faces
10% of all searches are image search
• 40% of that is people search
• ~1.5k per second !!!
What is tricky
Find most relevant descriptors in faceprint
Huge amount of data to process
Constant improvements/changes
• A lot work for dev-team
Competitors
Google (Picasa)
Iphoto (Apple)
• Interface very similar to nametagger
There is still more to do...
Finding context by images
• Images by images
• Images by text
Events grouping
p0rn/abusive content detection
Public API
That's all from my side
Please ask questions !