There's an abundance of images available to view and search through on the Internet, but finding a very specific image can still prove difficult. It requires you know exactly how to describe something in words, and also relies on images being tagged correctly. So Yahoo decided to help us out by improving Flickr with a visually similar search feature.
Using this new method of searching is as simple as clicking three dots and is already available to use. Head on over to Flickr, search for something of interest, and view the results. If there's an image you like and want to see similar images, click the "..." that appears in the top right corner of any image you mouse over.
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A drop-down menu will show "Search for similar photos" as an option. Click that, and Flickr will show a new page of results listing only images that are similar to the one you liked.
For animals, it could come in handy for finding a specific type you don't know the name of, for example, a breed of dog. But it should be just as useful for finding other objects. Maybe you want a new desk lamp and it needs to be chrome, but you want to see what different designs there are. That's where visually similar searching can come in very handy.
As to how Flickr's development team managed to implement a similar search system that works (and only takes a few seconds to produce results), we have deep learning and neural networks to thank for that. If you're interested as to how Flickr answered the difficult question of "what images are similar?" then Clayton Mellina, Software Development Engineer at Yahoo wrote a very detailed explanation on the Yahoo Research blog.
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