Reverse Image Search

What is a reverse image search?

Search engines such as Google, Yandex provide image reverse search facilities to the user. Instead of using a text query, you use a photo or a link to a photo to perform a reverse image search on many popular search engines such as Google and Bing.

Google then searches for websites that have your image and related ones. Google Images also recognizes the subject of your photo and suggests websites that are relevant to it.

Reverse Image Search, also known as Reverse Photo Search, is a helpful feature for locating photos or their sources on the internet.
Instead of text, an image is used to determine the search result set.
Though discovering identical photographs on the internet is difficult, this duplicate photo search allows users to search for those images simply by uploading an image and entering an image URL.

What is content-based image retrieval?

The sample picture is what formulates a search query in terms of information retrieval. Reverse image search is a content-based image retrieval (CBIR) query strategy that provides the CBIR system with a sample image on which it will then base its search.
Content-based image retrieval aims to discover similar images to a query image from a huge dataset.
The similarity between representative features of the query image and dataset photos is used to rank the pictures for retrieval in most cases.

How to use a reverse image search?

Upload an image or take a photo with your camera and search for it. You can also perform a search by pasting an image URL. Give it a go!.

A reverse image search can be carried out in various methods, but the result is a list of websites that display the photo or image and a link and a description.

It may also generate a list of comparable pictures for you.

Even though these results are often hit or miss, they may show you where photographs of the same thing are taken from a different angle have been found.