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Swedish spin-off launches photo-based search engine 
[Date: 2006-10-03] 


A spin-off company in Sweden hopes to launch the first ever Internet
search engine that can find photographs of people by analysing pictures
and identifying faces by the end of the year. 

The search engine will be the first of its kind, and is the result
carried out at the Universities of Lund and Malmö. The project has been
led by Jan Erik Solem, who has written a dissertation showing how
computers can be made, using mathematical processes, to create
three-dimensional models of objects or persons on the basis of regular
photographs. 

'Much of our research is geared to automating work at the computer. In
city planning, for example, and architecture, many hours of work are
devoted to creating 3D models manually. If that process can be
simplified, there will be incredible amounts of money saved. Another
conceivable area of use is in gaming, where this technology would make
it possible to put objects into the virtual world by photographing
them,' says Mr Solem. 

Mr Solem is so confident about the technology that he has already
launched a company, called Polar Rose, to commercialise it. The engine
will undergo testing by a number of beta-users. 'Since there is no such
search service in existence today, it's going to be really exciting to
see how it is received. And if it's a success, then we'll be saddled
with the luxury problem of competing with giants like Google, Microsoft
and Yahoo,' he says.


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