Hitachi helps porn owners dash through their stashImage sorting sortedBy Nick Booth: Thursday 26 July 2007, 12:54Click here to find out more!YOU KNOW HOW it is when you're publishing porn. You want to find the right picture to go with that hot story you're posting up. You know that somewhere on your database, there's a perfect picture to illustrate the tale of Debbie, and her adventures in prison her strap-on empowered cell mate.But how the devil do you find it, in among all the millions of other images you've got on the database? Especially when Dave, the work experience boy, labelled all the shots with names like 0001.jpeg. Finally, Hitachi has come up with a solution. It's invented a fast new way to search image databases, according to Nikkei.net.The technique involves new methods for both storing and retrieving pictures. Doesn't sound very radical but, Hitachi says, used together you can search millions of images in under a second, and find pictures that are similar in color and design in a twentieth of the time.Here's how it works. Images aren't simply stored, but grouped according to various factors, such as colour, design and outline. Blue, red and green colour components are quantified and outlines are derived from the proportional changes in hue between points in the image.So Debbie's cell mate, wearing a strap on, bears a distinctive shape that is stored in memory. As can Debbie's cell mate's other physical attributes. A search for this picture might, for example, bring up a sample group of pictures of similarly-shaped women wearing strap-ons.If a group becomes too large, the images in the collection are reclassified according to more strict criteria.Retrieval involves first selecting a group and then searching it for pictures that most resemble the target. This two-step process significantly accelerates the search.Hitachi will continue to develop the technology and hopes to prepare commercial applications as early as next fiscal year.Actually, it's not just pornographers who will be able to use this application. The procedure also works on video, so users could quickly scan saved movies for scenes with a specific actor. And broadcast stations could use this method to efficiently search through their video databases. Crime prevention is another possible future application, as police could search through videos captured by monitors to identify fugitives. Any business that stores loads of images (insurance loss adjustors, say, or car designers, or biotechnology researchers) can use this.So whether you're a car maker, a pornographer, or just plain gene slicing, Hitachi has the solution for you. Well, it will do next year. µ
too bad that jenna looking like the road now..
