Chromatik: search images based on their color content

La vie en rose is now possible with Chromatik!

Shortly following Google (too bad for us this time, remember last year we were the first to launch the face recognition feature ;-)), the Exalead Labs Team is proud to introduce its brand new version of a color based search engine called Chromatik. We hope you will like it.

 

This feature allows you to select the color related to the images you wish to appear in the search results.

 

Now all you have to do is click the colors of your choice and the results will be filtered according to that choice.

 

Here is a little example. We’ve done a search for a flower: first with no color filter and then with the red filter turned on. Images below.

 

 

 

 

We are not going to stop here...

 

Chromatik is not only limited to a single color selection, but two, three, four, twelve... More than a hundred colors.

 

Indeed, you can:

 

• Select as many colors as you want by clicking in the color spectrum
• Adjust the luminosity and the saturation
• Show images with similar colors by clicking in the link under the image
• Restrict to dark / light or colorful / gray-level images

 

 

 

The click follows a new request which allows you to restrict the images containing a minimum of the colors selected ( ie. the quantity in the adjustment bar)

To unselect the colors just click in the same square… So easy!

And next:

 

• More images (currently about 800 000 pictures from flickr)
• Intelligent text queries interpretation (e.g: automatically transform "black dog" into "black" and the category black.)
• More features for similarity computing

 

As a demo, Chromatik may encounter some bugs so please be patient. ☺ We are waiting for your feedback!

 

The demonstration is available on: http://chromatik.labs.exalead.com/