Monday, December 25, 2006
Riya Rocks!
Riya is a software firm that has pioneered image search.
It was long back when I first visited Riya, some 2 years back. Visited it again a couple of months back. Folks at Riya are really doing great work.
Where Riya clicks is, it looks inside the image. So, if you search for "Bill Gates", Riya would not merely look at image files with names as Bill Gates, but, would try to match the face to a known Bill Gates face. See - Bill Gates and Warren Buffet (move mouse over the image).
How do they do it ? That is their USP... With image file being merely bits floating around, they manage to identify the face/logos/text and match it up across different image files. That is great revolution in image search.
I was discussing the use cases with one of my friend Vivek, and here is one thing that came out of our discussion:
Riya could be used in matrimonial searches. Say, if you are looking for a girl who looks like Kareena Kapoor, fire a search on matrimonial site that is backed by Riya. If all goes fine, just approach the girls who match your criteria :)
Well, agreed that marriage is not merely based on looks, but the example use case tries to highlight the technological revolution Riya brings in.
Riya has already started "Visual Shopping". See - http://www.like.com/
Let's see where Riya takes its search from here and will Google pay a heed to it.
Cheers,
Manish.
It was long back when I first visited Riya, some 2 years back. Visited it again a couple of months back. Folks at Riya are really doing great work.
Where Riya clicks is, it looks inside the image. So, if you search for "Bill Gates", Riya would not merely look at image files with names as Bill Gates, but, would try to match the face to a known Bill Gates face. See - Bill Gates and Warren Buffet (move mouse over the image).
How do they do it ? That is their USP... With image file being merely bits floating around, they manage to identify the face/logos/text and match it up across different image files. That is great revolution in image search.
I was discussing the use cases with one of my friend Vivek, and here is one thing that came out of our discussion:
Riya could be used in matrimonial searches. Say, if you are looking for a girl who looks like Kareena Kapoor, fire a search on matrimonial site that is backed by Riya. If all goes fine, just approach the girls who match your criteria :)
Well, agreed that marriage is not merely based on looks, but the example use case tries to highlight the technological revolution Riya brings in.
Riya has already started "Visual Shopping". See - http://www.like.com/
Let's see where Riya takes its search from here and will Google pay a heed to it.
Cheers,
Manish.
