IS SOMEONE STEALING YOUR IMAGES ONLINE?

[zsas]

And therein lies the drawback of tineye. It has a tiny database of known images, certainly when compared with google image search. Search didn't fail because it requires login; google found the image based on surrounding text.

You make a great point that we all have learned from, if one is interested in seeing if his/her image is out there, one would need to do a Google image search for the metadata and tineye for a search that looks for clones of the image based on its 1/0's

I still can't believe that G hasnt bought tineye yet?

 

[Jon Shiu]

Google already has the same image search function as tineye. Go to images.google.com and click on the camera symbol.

Jon

 

[zsas]

Well then, I guess you answered my question as why G hasn't bought them out

 

[ntenny]

I've played with TinEye a bit, and never had much luck understanding the circumstances under which it works well or poorly. I don't think it's ever found anything of mine on APUG, but it clearly crawls Flickr---yet it often fails to recognize my stuff there, as well. But when it does find a match, it's often notably successful at recognizing different treatments of the same image---different toning, sharpening, cropping, stuff like that.

Google seems to have a worse matching algorithm but a larger crawl database---it found some instances of my images being linked from sites that aggregate Flickr content, though interestingly it didn't find the originals at Flickr itself---nor, again, at APUG. (Is the gallery protected by a robots.txt file, maybe? That would explain a lot.)

In the defense of both, soft matching of image or audio content is INCREDIBLY hard. We don't understand squat about how our brains do signal processing, and transformations that hardly even register with a human observer can completely flummox a quantitative algorithm. As a professional in a related field, I'm amazed that TinEye works as well as it does and I'd love to know what goes on under the hood.

-NT

 

[Sirius Glass]

Sirius Glass: Who stole your pictures and what were they using them for?

I only had the photograph up for 48 hours, then I checked and discovered that I had been copied over 200 times. That ended putting up any good work on APUG or any other site.

 

[Alan Klein]

What do you mean copied? How do you know they were copied? Who would "copy" them hundreds of times. And what did all these people do with them?

 

[Helinophoto]

It can also be indexing spiders, showing up as "copy", like google cache etc.

Must been some helluva photos to be copied that much so fast though

 

[Steve Smith]

I only had the photograph up for 48 hours, then I checked and discovered that I had been copied over 200 times.

If I look at an image on a website, my computer will temporarily download a copy of it. This shouldn't be a problem as the reason for putting images on a website is for people to look at them on their computers.

It's only when they start uploading them to other places that it becomes a problem.


Steve.

 

[removed account4]

If I look at an image on a website, my computer will temporarily download a copy of it. This shouldn't be a problem as the reason for putting images on a website is for people to look at them on their computers.

It's only when they start uploading them to other places that it becomes a problem.


Steve.

i agree steve ...
that is the difference between looking at an image / " personal use "
and someone either hotlinking your image to their website, or ebay selling page
or an ad agency snatching an image off of flickr or wherever it might be hanging out
and using it in an ad campaign. there are digital watermarks ( like digimark )
that allow photographers and painters &c to embed a homing device
into the image to track where and how it is being used.

i have had trouble in the past with a very large and well known real estate developer
retaining my work ( without paying for it ) and publishing it without my consent. as you said
that it a lot different than a photograph of cute puppies, or a slick cityscape, or hollowbody telecaster
someone found on flickr and has on his/her computer in their rotating screen saver.

john