Pond5, a content marketplace for high-quality royalty-free video, has developed a new AI (Artificial Intelligence) search engine that allows users to search by images instead of words. As stated by Pond5, The artificial intelligence that drives Pond5 Visual Search gives customers the ability to show, rather than tell, what they’re looking for. Eliminating the difficult task of trying to put a visual concept into words, Visual Search delivers instant results for licensable media with a similar look to any file a customer chooses. “Neural network” This technology recognizes patterns in shape, color and composition, and compares them to the tons of images and clips that already exist on the Pond5 platform in order to find similar results. Ponds5 calls it a “neural network”. According to the company the technology is a patent-pending AI-based Visual Search engine which gives users the ability to discover media based on existing imagery. As explained by Lawrence Lazare, Sr. Director, Product Management at Pond5, Our team used state-of-the-art deep-learning techniques to build and train a neural network that allows users to search Pond5 using visual assets that inspire them…By adding AI-based search into our industry-leading search experience, we also vastly reduced the amount of time it takes to find the perfect video clip, photo, or illustration. Browser Extension The browser extension application is a part of the new AI visual search, and is available for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. It lets users use any video or image they find on the web to search for similar video and...
Published By: CineD - Thursday, 5 April, 2018