A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

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A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

• Group Ten
• Brad Wright, Brandon Day, Nick Ponder, Jason
  Tipton, Nathan Kinard

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Key Words

• Riya
• Algorithm
• Visual Signature
• Likeness Search
• Click-Through

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What Is like.com?

• What is like.com?
• How is it different?
• Who developed it?
• What is the reasoning behind like.com.

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How Do You Use like.com

• Decide what you are searching.
• Text or Pictures.
• Set search criteria.
• Refine the image focus.
• Run Likeness Search.

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Likeness Searches

• Visual signatures and algorithms are the key
• Visual Signature is a mathematical representation
  of the image.
• Based on 1000 variables
• When enough variables are identical, the images
  are alike.
• Even text are converted to visual signatures.

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Where Do They Stand?

• Still young and not fully developed.
• Other features are to be added.
• Cross-matching feature.
• Upload feature.
• Enhance the celebrity search.

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How Does This Affect The Market?

• More people will attempt to utilize this
  technology.
• Gives consumers a better outlet to find what they
  are looking for.
• Software companies will make money based on
  click-through.
• Merchants have another effective way to market
  their products.

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http//www.like.com