Picollator FAQ
Why Picollator Online?
Picollator Online is the only image search engine
that uses photos as search criteria instead of textual queries.
You do not need to create textual query.
Picollator Oline searches by the most natural query – the sample image.
It recognizes human faces in the photos and finds the images with similar people
to the submitted portrait.
How does Picollator Online work?
Do not care. It works.
Recogmission team made significant efforts to simulate mathematically
how people represent the environment in their brains. We use complex technologies
that enable Picollator Online to distinguish different objects in the pictures,
find human faces, recognize and index them.
How Picollator Online searches for people faces?
Picollator Online processes images found in the web, detects faces,
recognizes them and classifies as if it does the alphabet or dictionary.
So next time you submit a photo Picollator Online searches through the existing
image index and finds the picture similar to your picture.
What does Most popular sign on the Home page stand for?
Picollator Online shows Most Popular searches for photos with people
on the Home page. You always see 5 pictures that appear
in the search results very often.
You can also see results for Most popular photos.
Just click the Similar images button under the image.
How does Similar images option work?
Picollator Online scans the Internet, finds pictures and detects faces on them.
After that, Picollator Online links faces that are similar to each other
in one cluster. So next time you click on the Similar images button under the image,
you will see other pictures that the system considers similar to the one.
Do people peculiarities (moustache, hat, eye glasses) influence image search?
There is no system that can define 100% who is the man.
Remember that even people mix up faces or cannot recognize an acquaintance.
So, if Picollator Online cannot recognize who is in the picture,
the system tries to give some possible variants.
Why did my query return no results?
Some of the potential reasons are that your photo does not resemble to anyone
in our existing index, or the uploaded photo is not good enough.
Read about photo requirements in this FAQ. Please take into account that
Picollator is now at the beta stage. The index is growing, but it has not covered
too much of the Internet.
I submitted the URL, but Picollator did not find pictures. Why?
In the existing Picollator version, URL is the path to the image itself.
Even if you can see the image on the screen and copy its link,
it does not mean automatically that it is the real image. For instance,
if you copy links from the first screen of Google search, those links do not contain image urls.
You have to click on any thumbnail, and then select the url of that image from the top of the page.
Why I upload a photo with a woman and obtained results with men’s photos as well?
People of different gender may look like each other.
Children may look like their father or their mother. That is quite normal.
What kind of image I have to submit to get better results?
Optimal image characteristics for best results are:
- less hair across the face;
- no glasses;
- a close-up of a face;
- avoid head rotations;
- image size: 1200х900 pixels;
- face size: more than 240х240 pixels.
What limits for images to upload?
Practically, Picollator is able to process any typical image.
However, to ensure speed and results, please, do not upload images that exceed
the following characteristics:
- maximum image resolution: 25 MPixels;
- minimum image resolution: 140x140 pixels.
What is the difference between Web search and Image search?
Image search enables you to search for all similar photos of people in the Internet.
Web search enables you to find web sites with images similar to your submitted image.
So in Web search you get back web sites in comparison to people photos in Image search.
What does the button 'More results' mean?
If you press this button, you receive all images from this site stored in Picollator index.
Picollator search results contain various photos with many people.
How do I know which photo is similar to the submitted image in my query?
When you point at the face in the submitted image, Picollator highlights all similar people in search results.
If you point at any image in search results, a pop up window opens with the submitted image
on the left and similar image on the right. In case the search result is a group photo
and you are not sure which person is similar to the submitted one,
point at your image (on the left) and Picollator will highlight the similar face.
This functionality is available only in Image search.
How are search results in Web search rated?
Picollator web search results rating is based on Recogmission unique algorithm.
If you search by image, you will get web sites with images
which are mostly similar to your query in the first place.
If you search by textual query, in the first place you will get web sites
where your keyword appears the biggest number of times.
Which browsers do Picollator Universal Search support?
Picollator supports MS Internet Explorer 6, MS Internet Explorer 7, Opera 9,
Firefox 2, Firefox 3, Safari 3.
What is the little tomato in the right corner of the uploaded photo for?
You have uploaded an image as a search query, but you don’t like the results
or you want to search for something more using text query only.
To disable the image you have uploaded, press the tomato sign. The photo
and the tomato will turn grey.
Picollator will not pay attention to this photo anymore and search only within text index.
Happy and safe searching ;)
