Bug 246263

Summary:	New tool to support remote web-service for similar search over Internet.
Product:	[Applications] digikam	Reporter:	Dennis Schridde <heri+kde>
Component:	Plugin-WebService-WishForNewTools	Assignee:	Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	caulier.gilles, julien.t43+kde
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.2.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Dennis Schridde 2010-07-30 13:57:52 UTC

Version:           1.2.0 (using KDE 4.4.95) 
OS:                Linux

Usage scenario of this feature-request:
I have a photo, but I do not know what building was photographed. Maybe I have some rough idea, or geographic boundaries.
Now I would like digiKam to send the photo to some online database with photos from a lot of other people who have tagged them. This service would then compare the photo to all the others and find out which look similar. It sends me the suggestions back, together with some of the other images. Then I select the most probable location / tags. This location (or tag) may then be send back to the database, so future searches become more accurate, having additional images to compare with.

I think such service already exists, maybe it was Google, Microsoft or flickr (or someone similar) doing it.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Comment 1 julien.t43+kde 2012-06-17 17:07:15 UTC

As far as I know, there is only those 2 services for search similar images:

https://www.tineye.com/
http://images.google.com/

After, it could be time-consuming to get meta from all returned pictures and there is no way to be sure meta/location are right. Interface should allow to choose which information to recover (typical like comment/gps or free meta selection or text of search)

Comment 2 Justin Zobel 2021-03-09 05:51:25 UTC

Thank you for the bug report.

As this report hasn't seen any changes in 5 years or more, we ask if you can please confirm that the issue still persists.

If this bug is no longer persisting or relevant please change the status to resolved.

Comment 3 caulier.gilles 2023-04-19 05:25:38 UTC

This entry can only be implemented as plugin, like other web service tools.