Duplicates, statistics & flag as bug…
Today we released some new features to the Polar Rose website and plugin – detection of duplicate images, statistics and a new functionality in the plugin to make it easier to notify us about bugs.
Duplicates
Duplicate detection means that multiple versions of the same image are grouped together – making it easier for you to get an overview of results for a particular person.
Simply click the link shown above an image that has duplicates and you will open a page showing all the duplicates – even if some images have been cropped, scaled or had other modifications made to them they will still be shown on this page.
When you browse the page of duplicates of an image you can also see all the different websites that the image has be found at.
Statistics
Under the search field on the Polar Rose home page there are now links to pages that show the most popular searches, most named people and the top users on Polar Rose.
Flag as bug
The Polar Rose plugin now includes a checkbox which allows you to quickly and easily flag bugs (roses that appear on things other than faces). Doing this helps us to improve our face recognition and show better results when you search on the Polar Rose website.
Tags: duplicates, plugin, site, statistics
August 5th, 2008 at 19:56
Great function with the duplicates. It looks like the engine is finding duplicates by it one and naming them “Unkown Person” one step closer to full functionality for polar rose. It even finds heavily modified duplicates. One question thou how does it find duplicates for some persons it finds modified duplicates that are hard to identify for a human and on others it does not find identic duplicates. Is the engine runing throu the database and all persons are not ready yet?
August 5th, 2008 at 20:25
@Sebastian: Thanks for your feedback, we’re glad you like the duplicates and as you say, it brings us one step closer to full functionality. More will come soon but this is already quite fantastic, I think. Duplicates are found using face similarity only at the moment which means that cropping and “photo montages” are detected even though the rest of the image might change. Sometimes duplicates are being split up into multiple groups and that requires some tuning. There are also some obvious improvements to this first release that we will add (and some bugs to fix) in the coming weeks.
August 5th, 2008 at 21:06
Similar technology is already available here tineye.com
August 22nd, 2008 at 13:40
I can’t find this feature anywhere.
I see no place on your homepage or when browsing images anywhere that sais anything about duplicates.
August 22nd, 2008 at 13:50
Lucie, that is not similar. tineye finds similar images, not images with the same face.
August 22nd, 2008 at 16:26
Jesper, when duplicates have been discovered, their number is shown above the image. You can click on it to get to a new page with all the duplicates. Check this result for example: http://www.polarrose.com/found/obama/stack1
September 17th, 2008 at 19:24
[...] script that looks for unnamed people in photos we find across the web and checks against named near-duplicates. This means that we can now spread the names contributed by our users to more photos, thus making [...]
November 13th, 2008 at 23:32
[...] of the stacks previously used we are now showing results in a single page grouped according to duplicates instead. The page is without pagination and you can simply keep on appending more results by [...]
December 17th, 2008 at 23:27
I tried the Tineye Web site that was mentioned above. It doesn’t have a huge database of photos yet, but I like that we can upload our own photos on Tineye and search for them on the Internet the way google searches for text. I wish that Polar Rose had this feature. Right now I’m not getting anything out of Polar Rose that I wouldn’t get out of a general google search.