[HN Gopher] Same.energy: Image Search by Similarity
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       Same.energy: Image Search by Similarity
        
       Author : mprime1
       Score  : 101 points
       Date   : 2023-02-01 17:48 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | jeadie wrote:
       | You should try https://github.com/marqo-ai/marqo instead. Does
       | all this and more and still very active development.
        
       | dvt wrote:
       | The website is long-gone, but I built something similar-ish ~10
       | years ago[1] using simple histogram analysis. I was surprised at
       | how far you got with just comparing buckets with certain
       | tolerances. Was a super fun project, but got very little
       | traction. Open sourced it here[2].
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       | [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WswSywx6TI
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       | [2] https://github.com/dvx/skrch
        
       | zoklet-enjoyer wrote:
       | There used to be a porn website like this that scraped all of the
       | porn subs.
        
       | Birkeholm wrote:
       | I have been using this site for a while, however it seems the
       | creator has gone AWOL.
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       | You are not able to sign up nor actually upload images as
       | starting points, which is a shame. The creator does not respond
       | thruogh the site nor twitter. Hasn't been active either.
        
       | 2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote:
       | Fantastic for NSFW content.
        
       | 01ce8c91872dd6d wrote:
       | ask HN: what is state-of-the-art perceptual hashing tech for
       | images?
        
         | higginsc wrote:
         | Check out SSCD from Meta
         | https://github.com/facebookresearch/sscd-copy-detection
         | 
         | (full disclosure: I am an employee who has worked with this
         | team before internally, but I was not associated with this
         | paper)
        
         | heipei wrote:
         | Look at the papers of Andrew Zhai (Pinterest) and how they do
         | it.
        
         | bobosha wrote:
         | perceptual hashing is one approach to image similarity, there
         | are many others. The au courant way of doing ANN search is to
         | use embeddings from the powerful pre-trained models. In this
         | tool the creator uses OpenAI's CLIP.
        
       | ramoz wrote:
       | Below is an OSS alternative, originating from same engineering as
       | stable diffusion. There is other awesome work in rom1504's Github
       | I recommend exploring as well.
       | 
       | https://rom1504.github.io/clip-retrieval/ (usually performant)
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       | https://github.com/rom1504/clip-retrieval
        
       | loxias wrote:
       | What's the math behind this? There's plenty of possible image
       | embeddings/spaces.
        
         | mcint wrote:
         | The about page mentions, https://same.energy/about
         | Same Energy's core search uses deep learning. The most similar
         | published work is CLIP by OpenAI.
         | 
         | He worked at OpenAI, and has written a few blog posts on ML
         | topics. https://jacobjackson.com/
        
       | mprime1 wrote:
       | Just click on an image that you like. Then keep clicking.
       | 
       | Hit the lightning at the top of the page to restart from scratch.
       | 
       | I lost a very enjoyable hour going down random rabbit holes of
       | beautiful images.
       | 
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       | Previously on HN ~2 years ago:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24434165
       | 
       | https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsame.energy
       | 
       | I'm not associated with this project in any way.
        
         | brap wrote:
         | I keep ending up in rabbit holes of ever-increasing cleavages.
         | Must be a bug.
        
       | pr337h4m wrote:
       | Unfortunately, this has been abandoned :( Since more than a year,
       | uploading an image or signing up just leads to a server error.
       | Was really amazing when it worked. The creator hasn't been active
       | on Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, HN, etc. either.
        
         | naillo wrote:
         | Still works though (mostly) and still a pretty cool service.
        
         | robertheadley wrote:
         | Yeah. It was a very promising tool. Creator is unresponsive.
        
           | ed25519FUUU wrote:
           | Maybe he passed away?
        
         | forsythe_ wrote:
         | Oh no. I never understood why the upload didn't work but had no
         | idea it was abandoned. That really sucks.
         | 
         | For a while now I've been using it a few times a week to find
         | reference images for drawing. I find it beats Pinterest in
         | terms of speed and relevance for most of my searches.
         | 
         | I really _really_ don 't want it to go down.
         | 
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         | 
         | I just browsed the creator's inactive social media pages. I
         | wonder if they've passed away..?
        
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