Reverse image search

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Reverse image search is a content-based image retrieval technique where a user provides an image which the system will then search for among its dataset. By searching for a result via an image, users do not need to guess at keywords or terms that may or may not return a correct result. Reverse image search allows users to discover content that is related but not equivalent to their provided image, to discover the prevalence of the provided image in a dataset, and to discover manipulated versions and derivative works. A visual search engine is a search engine designed to search for information on the World Wide Web through a reverse image search. Information may consist of web pages, locations, other images and other types of documents. This type of search engines is mostly used to search on the mobile Internet through an image of an unknown object (unknown search query). Examples are buildings in a foreign city. These search engines often use techniques for content-based image retrieval...

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