[vox-tech] amazon "search in the book" questions

[Bill Kendrick]

On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 02:14:21PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> What would be very interesting would be some sort of 'vgrep' that would
> let you find images similar to a known sample.
> 
> This way you could, say, screenshot the image, then search your browser
> cache for the similar source file, based on edge detection or similar.
> 
> Not something I'd use every day, but could be useful on the odd
> occasion.  Anyone familiar with the field at all?

KDE has an image indexing system you can install, and then you can
right-click images and ask to "Search for similar images."

I believe it's a front-end to something.  I obviously don't know
much about it. :)

Good luck!

-bill!