TinEye - 2 Matches Found...

[bigrobo89]

Hi everyone,

I was just reading through the "earning with photography" section and saw a link to a site called "TinEye" which allows you to reverse search your images to see if anyone else has used them on the net, even if they have been altered in some way etc.

This is a direct quote from TinEye's FAQ:

"TinEye finds exact and altered copies of the images that you submit, including those that have been cropped, colour adjusted, resized, heavily edited or slightly rotated. TinEye does not commonly return similar matches, and it cannot recognize the contents of any image. This means that TinEye cannot find different images with the same people or things in them."

Now I thought I'd run a couple of shots through it out of curiosity, and low and behold the second shot I ran through turned up a result! Now here is the original shot I took:



and this is the result that TinEye turned up:



Now this photo was supposedly taken on the 21st Sept 2010 using a 5D Mark II (I took mine on a 400D/Rebel XTi sometime around the 15th Sept 2010).

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

Paul

[TheDarkReaver]

Well there's only so many pictures you can take from the top of a building that literally thousands of people have visited and taken pictures from...

I doubt he went to the trouble of stealing the picture and then changing small details like the lights on in the windows just so he could claim the picture as his own. not to mention copy the photo, crop it and still manage to upload a higher resolution image.

[RichardTaylor]

I think Tin Eye has made a mistake

Different lighting patterns on some of the buildings and the horizon has the 24mm distortion in that second pic not to mention the vignetting. .

[Izzy]

Not sure why yours came back as a match, but I guess the angle you took it from is a very popular angle. With that said it should make attempts to read EXIF data as another point to confirm matching.

I have played with this for the last 20 minutes and I would have to say that it works partly. My avatar is used on at least 4 other sites, 2 of which are mine and only one came back.

I am sure as this gets better it will be hard to shake it.

[OsmosisStudios]

Coincidence: Im sure if I looked at my photos of the empire state building, I'd have something similar.

[milosh]

Originally Posted by bigrobo89

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

Paul

I do, I think you did a better job with your camera.