Too Long; Didn't Read
There’s an actress on TV wearing an outfit that you <em>must</em> have. How do you find it? If you know some details, you could toss a word salad into Google and hope that someone has blogged about it. A search like “Blake Lively blue dress Cannes” is popular enough to work, but “That cute blue jacket that Sue wore on The Great British Bake Off” is a nonstarter. You need visual search — the ability to search for content in visual media. With the vast amount of video and image content on the web, there is an increasing need for effective visual search engines.