LAST week, Plink, an early-stage visual-search company behind the PlinkArt mobile application, which allows people to identify a work of art by taking a photo of it, was sold to Google, with its two Irish founders - James Philbin and Mark Cummins - now heading to work at Google Goggles.
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Explains Philbin of Plink: "Currently, people can search for specific categories of objects - book covers, wine labels, art. Eventually, I think the technology will be good enough to search for information on almost any object, acting as a kind of glue between objects in the offline world and information in the online world. But there's a lot of tough computer-vision problems to solve before we get there."
The article mentions some other projects being researched and developed in Ireland.
Some vibrant visual search projects are also coming to the fore in Ireland. Hilary Kenna is the principal investigator on a new National Digital Research Centre (NDRC)-funded project called SeeSearch.
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"My research is trying to come up with new ways of representing how search results are displayed to the user through visualisation. When you search through any of the search engines you basically get a text-based list and a lot of people don't go beyond the first or second page."
Focusing on the library sector initially, SeeSearch also has the involvement of a commercial partner called Interleaf.
"It's going to sit on top of library systems and present visualisations of the search results back. The aim is that it will be applicable to any kind of searching for data retrieval."
Also mentioned in the article is a video engine named MetaLabs Video.
Source: Independent.ie
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