Indexing Engine

The PixSearch Indexing Engine provides a technology suite and API that can easily integrate into various products and applications, enabling users to quickly locate the most similar images and other multimedia objects according to their visual content, navigating through large multimedia databases to intuitively find results. Using PixSearch, queries can be performed by simply describing the desired image content or by providing an image sample as the query criteria. Similarity, in this respect, is based on a set of features that can be either automatically extracted from the image, such as color, texture, and shape, or provided by the application by defining domain-specific features and metrics.

The Indexing Engine incorporates cutting edge technologies. In the indexing process, appropriate signatures are extracted from the images/videos and are efficiently indexed for fast and easy search and retrieval based on perceptual metrics. Designed for high performance with very large databases, the unique database query technology and advanced data structures enable efficient multi-modal search, utilizing standard SQL-based commercial databases. It also enables advanced search by description, utilizing a sophisticated query language.

Search using a reference image

Market Applications

The PixSearch Indexing Engine is particularly attractive for companies in need of indexing and content-based search capabilities for a large collection of objects (e.g., hundreds of millions) where traditional object tagging and labeling is not possible or inefficient. If a similarity can be defined between two objects in the collection, the PixSearch Indexing Engine automatically provides efficient indexing and the ability for fast search, including query-by-example and query-by-description.