Eyealike, Lookalike
Summary
ActiveSymbols’ Eyealike visual search launches in beta today, allowing you to find dates that look like someone else you find attractive — the person that dumped you last year, your favorite coworker, or America’s Next Top Model, for example. Fortunately, the technology that ActiveSymbols has built is not just about dating and celebrity face recognition. Viewdle recognizes appearances of people in videos, while Riya has created a visual shopping search engine called Like so you can find a shirt just like the one Britney’s wearing. In August of 2006, Google did in fact buy an image search company, Neven Vision. Eyealike’s capabilities — face search, image detection, and video copyright surveillance — will be available in a hosted version or as licensed software to be installed on Windows or Linux servers.