PimEyes facial recognition tool

[scutty brown]

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Another reverse image search engine, Polish in origin
Different in that it relies totally on facial recognition to get a match. Also it appears to have indexed many of the EE prossie sites that the other search engines avoid.
You need a paid subscription to see the full images and weblinks it finds, but in most cases just seeing the list of hit results is enough.

I've just run a number of checks and in some cases it  gets hits where Google, Bing, Yandex, TinEye and the others all fail

Obviously it can only work where there IS a face in the photo

[scutty brown]

here's an example from Vivastreet

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the main search engines, even Baidu, drew blanks, but PimEyes got this list of hits

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[LLPunting]

Your list expired so they're canny enough to keep their revenue model intact.

Does it work despite image filters a la Snapchat? 

Sounds like a scam on punters if you're being charged to have a shot not a guarantee that you can find picture matches against an SP's advertising pics.  If it raises matches against social media hosted images then it could breach a woman's privacy, not exactly an ethical thing to do.

[RogerThat]

I agree on the ethics.

The trouble is that many don't, or don't care.

[Bopcrown]

Drew a quick face in MS paint.

Loads of results with about half of them coming up as potentially explicit, inviting me to pay to get them unlocked.

Maybe the AI needs more training, but I'm not paying for a search engine.

[Atrueyorkie]

Sorry can’t see the latest thread on this so if there is one let me know please. The reverse search seems extremely accurate.

Has anyone signed up to the monthly or annual plans? Is it worth it?

[scutty brown]

Sorry can’t see the latest thread on this so if there is one let me know please. The reverse search seems extremely accurate.

Has anyone signed up to the monthly or annual plans? Is it worth it?

I don't think there's a need to subscribe.
With the free version there's usually enough detail given on the hits to work out whether the photo is widely used, or if it's been pinched from a social media site. I regard it as a useful crosscheck when used in conjunction with other sites

[LLPunting]

Agree, it's useful enough in its current free form to add to your verification of an SP.  Still offers up accurate hits that other engines don't. It's one of 5 engines I've configured in the image search extension I use so any SP image is a couple of clicks away from being checked as genuine.