Picsbuffet – Images Arranged by Similarity on a Zoomable 2D Map

June 30, 2015 Marco | Editor

By Lee Torrens Picsbuffet is the latest work of Dr. Kai Barthel of HTW Berlin and Chief Visionary Officer (get it?) of Pixolution, a company providing technology and research around visual search solutions in the stock photo industry, and others. It is a “Google Maps style” image search platform for stock photos, utilising Pixolution’s visual search technologies to show a 2D ‘map’ of images arranged by relevance – a fused… …read more

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Marco | Editor

Editor and founder of a bunch of stockphoto businesses

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