New development The search giant has already surpassed humans.
Most of you know about Google's photo search feature. Just go to Pictures mode, add a link to the photo or upload a file from your computer and search system will determine the object located in the frame.
However, this trick only works with popular attractions and famous places. Google can easily recognize the Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty or the Egyptian pyramids. However, if you simply upload a photo of a street in your city, the search will not be successful.
Experts at Google are not sitting still and developing a neural network PlaNet, which will allow you to search for an area using photos more accurately. For analysis and search this system divided most of the land into 26,000 zones. Each of them is characterized by certain features and differs from the others. 
More than 120 million images with added geo-tags were used to train PlaNet. Later, to test the system, she was asked to recognize the location of 2 million photos from Flickr. Neural network was able to determine the position 3,6%
street-accurate images, 10%
- accurate to the city. The country was set to 28,4%
cases, and the continent - in 48%
.
PlaNet notices something in the photo that not every person will notice. The system recognizes dishes, plants, direction of movement on the road, animals, architecture of buildings and other features. After analysis, the search engine makes its guess about the shooting location.
PlaNet's results were compared with the results of travel experts in GeoGuessr. This game uses Google street photography Street View, you need to guess the place where the photo was taken.
The neural network performed better than a team of experts. The average PlaNet error result was 1131.7 km, travelers were wrong by an average of 2320.75 km.
I wonder if PlaNet will be able to guess the location of a photo based on the carpet in the background.
HashPhotos is a small utility that makes dull geotags dance to our tune. Its task is to show where this or that photo from your photo feed was taken.
HashPhotos is a small utility that makes dull geotags dance to our tune. Its task is to show where this or that photo from your photo feed was taken. And believe me, there are more benefits from this function than it seems at first glance.
Imagine that you arrived in an unfamiliar city and checked into a hotel. To find it in the evening, you need to find out the address, write it down somewhere in your iPhone, or add a bookmark to Maps. The same should be done with the train station, museums, the nearest metro station, etc.
Open the photo you want and swipe up to see the exact location on the map HashPhotos greatly simplifies this routine. You simply take a photo of the object you want (hotel, cafe) with a standard camera and continue your walk. If you need to remember where a certain place is, just select the corresponding photo in HashPhotos, and you will immediately see it on the map along with the date and exact coordinates.
With a couple of clicks, the whole thing can be “sent” to regular Maps to create a route, or copy the coordinates to the clipboard.
Press the “share” key to open the shooting coordinates in Google Maps and get directions to them Any modern digital camera records in a photo file Additional information about the photo - EXIF data: model of the camera with which the photo was taken, shutter speed, aperture, focal length, ISO sensitivity, time and date of shooting, etc.
When you upload a photo to Yandex.Photos, this information is saved. To open it, on the photo viewing page, click the More icon and select Show EXIF.
Why don't some photos have EXIF?
If a photo is taken with a film camera and then scanned, it cannot have EXIF data because it is assigned to the photo when the file is created digital camera.
Graphic editor(For example, Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom) may remove EXIF data with certain file saving settings.
Also, some mobile phones do not leave EXIF data.
How can I find out the model of the camera that took the photo and see other photos taken with this camera?
On the photo viewing page, tap the More icon.
Select Show EXIF.
You will be taken to a page with photographs of other authors whose works were taken by this camera model and posted on Yandex.Photos.
How to find out where a photo was taken?
Each photo on Yandex.Photos can be linked to a map. If the photo is already linked to a map, to find out its location, click the On map link, which is located on the photo viewing page.
If the photo is not linked to the map, but you know where it was taken, you can offer the author of the photo your option for placement on the map. To do this, click the link Link to map under the photo.
You will be taken to a map page where you can enter the location of the photo. If the author agrees with your proposal, you will receive a message by mail.
There are times when you really need to search by image from your phone. Yes, most of us know how to perform such an operation on a computer.
Everything is simple there - every browser (, Google, etc.) has own page to use photos as a request.
Actually, all that remains is indicate the original photo and start looking for relevant materials.
Contrary to the opinion of some users, this operation is no less easy.
The algorithm of actions is the same, and in some cases even simpler. You just need to know what services or applications to use for this and how to do it correctly.
But we will tell you 5 best options, which help you find something from a photograph.
Contents:
Google Chrome
This is the same browser that is available by default on all smartphones and tablets running .
By the way, Yandex has its own browser, just like Google, but it does not have the same window and functions as shown in the figure. Therefore, there is no point in downloading it.
TinEye
And this is a specialized service created to enable users from all over the world to search for information using photos.
Many professionals know him.
Although it is also known among amateurs, since it is extremely easy to accomplish the task at hand, and the results it produces are quite informative and accurate.
To use it, do this:
- Visit the official website (link below). The resource page automatically adapts to your device, which is quite important.
- And then everything is very clear - there is a single button and field for entering a request. If you click on the button, a new window will appear in which you should specify the location of the source file. And the input field is intended for using links to photos. If the second approach is used, that is, a link is entered, you will need to additionally click on the icon in the form of a magnifying glass.
- After this the process will take place.
It is noteworthy that TinEye’s algorithm is completely different from that used by Yandex and Google.
In most cases, the results are more accurate and more consistent with user expectations. So you should definitely try using this service.
Google Googles
Here we are talking about a rather non-standard application that searches for information not just about some pictures, but about the places where you are and the things that you see.
This means that you can take a photo of the painting you are looking at in a gallery, or the food you see in a store.
After this, the program will find all available information on the photographed item.
It is also worth noting that the program has a translation mode with accompanying text recognition in the photo.
That is, you can take a picture of some inscription so that the program can use this inscription as a request and translate it, for example, from Russian into English.
To use Googles on your smartphone, do this:
- launch the application (before that, of course, download and install it);
- select the operating mode below;
- take a photo in the same way as you usually do;
- look at the results.
CamFind
And our list closes with another application that works on the same principle as Google Googles, but mainly searches for all kinds of goods in stores.
For example, you can take a photo of some sunglasses or a jar of kefir and the application will immediately find all the information on this product.
If these are glasses, then you will see prices in different retail networks on them, varieties, brands and so on.
In general, for those who are constantly shopping or just regularly buy something in stores.
On the other hand, it will be useful, for example, to parents who want to know the composition of the product they buy for their children. In general, this is a really good and useful thing.
Using this program is also very simple and consists of the following:
- take a photo;
- wait until identification occurs;
- look at the results.
It is noteworthy that here you can transfer some images to your own special collection (section “Favorites”).
Not all users know that digital photographs You can enter shooting coordinates - geographic latitude and longitude. This data is recorded in the so-called EXIF - a special extension of a digital image, where a lot of information is entered: date and time of shooting, camera model, exposure, ISO, and so on and so forth. If the camera (phone) is equipped with a GPS chip, then GPS coordinates can also be entered into this EXIF - this is called a “geotag”. > This opportunity can be very convenient, especially when it comes to photographing all kinds of travel: instead of answering questions from the series “Where is this? Where is this? Where is this beautiful place?”, you simply say what’s there Each photo has coordinates - take it and see who needs it. Many viewing programs can display coordinate values in photos - for example, ACDSee Photo Manager, in which you can enable viewing of all EXIF data.
GPS coordinates in ACDSee
However, just coordinates as such say little. It would be much more convenient to be able to see the shooting location if necessary - for example, in the same Google maps. It would be quite obvious. Well, no problem! Can do things like this free program Picasa from Google. Install it and launch it. The program will scan the images on your computer and display them as thumbnails. On those photos that have a geotag, Picasa will show a special red icon - like a position mark on Google maps.
Geotagged photos
If you click on the same icon from the bottom toolbar, Picasa will display a map panel, where it will show the coordinates of all the photos in the folder or the coordinates of the selected photo.
Photo and map
Moreover, on the map you can also select the “satellite” mode and other modes supported by Google maps. You can also, of course, change the display scale.
Changing the scale and turning on the satellite image
Using this program, you can also manually add geotags to already taken photographs - select the desired area on the map, and then add the corresponding geotag to the selected images. There are quite a few cameras with built-in GPS, but if you don’t have one, it hardly makes sense to buy something like that just because of geotags. Considering the growing popularity of smartphones with cameras, which can already produce quite decent images in quality, the task of geotagging is solved simply - as a rule, if a smartphone is equipped with a GPS module, then its camera can add these geotags. Here, for example, are the iPhone settings - enabling geotagging in the camera.
Enabling geotagging in camera
Here's how to enable a geotag on an Android smartphone.
Enable GPS on Android
Well, at the same time, it makes sense to immediately check whether the geotag is enabled in your smartphone settings, otherwise the opposite situation may happen: you are absolutely not interested in the fact that from your photographs posted on the Internet, it is possible to determine the exact coordinates of the shooting, but they are You are vilely registered with your smartphone on every frame.
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