The progress technological usually they are combined and this is the case of PimEyes, the Union of facial recognition and artificial intelligence with which this website works. Its purpose is to find the photos in which a person appears throughout the internet and collect them.
Users can upload any photo to PimEyes and see the faces that the search engine considers to be identical or similar. Those who subscribe for about $29.99 a month also receive, in addition to search results, links to websites with corresponding photos. There it is possible to find more key data about the person you are looking for.
After doing the search, the results are ordered according to the similarity of the data by means of a scale with five stars where all the photos that show remarkable similarities.
The website advertises that “PimEyes uses facial recognition search technologies to perform a reverse image search” with the objective of “auditing copyright infringements”.
Basically, what is intended is to be able to find all the photographic material that there is for Internet to be able to defend against “fraudsters, identity thieves or people who use your image illegally”.
How this website can be used
To use this tool you need to upload a photo, which will be stored within the servers for 48 hours, of the person you want to meet. A search only takes a few seconds and you get a grid of photos of faces considered similar.
Also included are photos in which they appear with sunglasses, mask or with obvious changes in the face. Of course, there are photos that you don’t even know are on the web. The New York Times has tested the power of this search engine and the results have even been scary.
PimEyes, unlike other facial recognition browsers, does not include the results of social networks. Instead, the images that he manages to rescue from the most remote places come from newspaper articles, wedding photography pages, review sites, blogs and porn sites.
Subscribing users can 25 daily searches, view the results in less than 5 seconds and verify them all. On the other hand, alerts can be set to notify you when a new photo is found.
New owner, new ideology
Giorgi Gobronidze is the new owner of PimEyes, a 34-year-old academic who says his interest in advanced technology began because of the cyber attacks Russians to his native Georgia. Gobronidze said that she thinks PimEyes can be a tool for something positive, to help people monitor their online reputation.
“Users of PimEyes are only supposed to search their faces or the faces of people who have given consent,” Gobronidze said. Nevertheless, noted that it depended on people acting “ethically,” which offers little protection against technological erosion of the ability to remain anonymous in the crowd.
PimEyes has no controls to prevent users from searching for a face other than their own and prompts the user to pay a hefty sum to prevent the damaging photos generated by one night’s bad decisions from haunting them forever.
This is what a reverse image search looks like
A reverse image search is a technique that allows you to find things, people, brands, etc. using a photo. When you do a normal search, you typically type a word or phrase related to the information you’re trying to find; When you do a reverse image search, you upload a photo to a search engine like Google. Google Images, which is the best known.
When you do a reverse image search, the results return photos of similar things or people linked to websites about them. Reverse image search is the best solution to find similar images, smaller or larger versions of them.
