Polar Rose

„image search engines are all about people”

Paweł Rutkowski

pawel (at) polarrose (dot) com

What we do in general?

Image search

Vision technology

People oriented

How does it started ?

Founded in 2004 by Jan Erik Solem

• Vision patent

Academic + swidish goverment grants

Vision team builds prototypes

NVP invests 4.1M € in 2006

Closed beta since August 2007

Public beta run since May 2008

Short on vision technology

3D Model

„Faceprint”

• 90 dimensional vector

Face detection is NOT face recognition

Products

Browser plugin (FF/IE)

Search site

• Duplicate detection

• Matching (aka. PolarBot)

Nametagger

One more is coming in May 2009 !!!

Plugin

Nametagger

Name-what ?

MediaRSS

Javascript widget

• Quickly name people in your gallery

• Browse your gallery grouped by people

• Search your's gallery for given names

Some numbers

Public beta run since May 2008

62M images processed

300k people named

17M faces

10% of all searches are image search

• 40% of that is people search

• ~1.5k per second !!!

What is tricky

Find most relevant descriptors in faceprint

Huge amount of data to process

Constant improvements/changes

• A lot work for dev-team

Competitors

Google (Picasa)

Iphoto (Apple)

• Interface very similar to nametagger

There is still more to do...

Finding context by images

• Images by images

• Images by text

Events grouping

p0rn/abusive content detection

Public API

That's all from my side

Please ask questions !