Image Databases
Source: San Jose Mercury News
digital library
“By making more and more of its images digital, Corbis can keep greater control over them and lower its expenses. It can sell images directly over the Web, offer new tools to search through them, and use software to track where each image appears, cracking down on piracy.”
See Also: Image-Seek
This demo from LTU Technologies allows you to keyword search 65,000 royalty-free images from the Corbis database. From the site, “Image-Seeker is an image analyzer that describes images according to their visual features. ‘Because an image is worth a thousand words’, using image similarity combined with text-based search dramatically improves search processes. This demo presents visual search on a large selection of over 65,000 Corbis Royalty-Free images. It is the most intuitive way to navigate while searching for images.”

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