Search with a photo on social networks. Facial recognition software allows you to find any person on the Internet by taking a photo of them
Thanks to the availability of special web services and applications, you can easily find a person by photo.
Most modern programs and websites use artificial intelligence technology.
It allows you to increase the accuracy of facial recognition in a photo as the number of program users increases.
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It should be understood that no search engine can give a 100% guarantee of finding an image.
Often errors occur when reading pixels or searching for photos that are similar in meaning and color palette.
Below are some of the most effective ways. If one of them does not help you, feel free to move on to the other.
Ultimately, one of the methods will turn out to be the most suitable for your picture and the person will be found.
Google service
The first and easiest way to search by image is. The developers of the popular system have introduced a function for working with user images.
Now you can not only enter a query, but also insert individual images into the text field.
The search engine carries out analysis for all sites and social networks that are indexed in the system.
Let's look at a simple example of how to use the function:
- Let's go to the website. This page differs from the standard one by the presence of an additional button for adding;
- To get started, click on the camera icon. A window for selecting the type of photo upload will appear. The user can provide a direct link to an image already posted on the Internet or upload;
- Press the key "Search by image".
The result of processing your request in Google will look like this:
It will automatically indicate the person's name or subject. Also, the user will be able to view similar images.
Another element of search results are pages that mention the person found.
Often, the result only shows similar images without providing a name. This means that there are too many similar pictures on the Internet and the system cannot find a 100% exact match.
Try scrolling down to the field "Pages with matching images". This way you can view a list of links that contain what you are looking for.
With it you can search not only for people, but also for various objects.
Find the text line and next to it click on the “Pictures” tab to go to the corresponding section:
- In the tab that opens, click on the camera icon;
- Now in the tab that opens, click on the button to load a photo from the PC memory or provide a direct link to the picture on the Internet. Click on “Find”;
The result will be a set of the most similar images with which you can find a person.
Although the program is designed to quickly identify fake accounts, it can also be used to find people.
You will need to upload a photo to your album on VKontakte, since this can only be done using the one that is in the site’s database.
- Open the photo in your album in VK. The album can be private, the main thing is that it is on the website;
- After opening the image, press the key to launch the StopFake extension. It is located in the upper right corner on. To eliminate possible problems, we recommend restarting your browser immediately after installing the extension;
- It will automatically identify them on the social network that contains the photo you are looking for. Thanks to the author's signature, you can easily find the person you need. Click on the author's name to go to it.
FindFace
FindFace is another service for effectively monitoring people. To start working with the site, you need to log in using your page on a social network.
Add a photo to the search field. The request processing process will begin automatically. As a result, options with similar photos will be found.
Among the lists of user accounts, you can find the person you are interested in.
If the service has found too many user pages, you can filter the results using the keys at the top. Select gender and age range.
You can also select the city and status (online or offline). However, we advise you not to set restrictions, because they can eliminate the necessary options if age or city is not specified.
Notice! The free version of the service has a monitoring limitation. You can only press the Find button 30 times.
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Sometimes it happens that you only have a photograph of a person and you don’t know anything else about him. Let's say you need to identify him to check whether he actually witnessed the events or worked in a certain place. on the Internet will allow you to find a person if you know at least something about him. What if you only have a photograph? In this case, photo recognition and people search services will come to the rescue. Such online tools can “find out” who is shown in photographs. In some cases, the service will directly answer your question, indicating the first and last name of the person in the photo. But such an answer is not always possible to obtain. But modern recognition tools are quite capable of finding similar pictures or even an exact profile on a social network.
In some cases, facial recognition helps to identify people in a group photo and compare two faces.
Some of the search engines allow you to find similar faces, and some allow you to recognize the celebrities depicted in the photo.
Pictriev is a search service with facial recognition functionality that will provide you with basic information about the person in the photo by scanning the face in the photo. In addition, the service will show which celebrities are similar to the person depicted in the search query.
Here, as in the Google service, you can upload a photo for analysis or provide a link to a photo published on the Internet.
However, in our test examples, the service’s performance was strange - the service did not recognize Petra Kvitova, and among celebrities similar to her, it named another tennis player, Anna Ivanovich.
At the same time, in another example of a photograph of Anna Ivanovich, the tennis player was recognized immediately with an accuracy of 52%, which is quite a lot for this service.
— Betafacehttp://betaface.com/demo.html
Betaface is a professional facial recognition software aimed at media companies, allowing them to automatically recognize faces and find information about them. To learn how this paid product works, you can use its demo version.
Users are asked to upload a photo to the site, after which the service provides a large list of data about the person depicted on it. These details include age, race, facial expression, presence of a beard and glasses, hair and beard color, presence of a mustache, chin size, eye color and position, eyebrow position, color and thickness, hair length, head shape, mouth and nose shape and size , teeth and other smaller parts.
One of the most accessible methods to find a person is to search on social networks, including VKontakte. You can search using different parameters, it all depends on what data you have. There are two ways to find the page you need by photo.
You have an image and, based on it, you need to find the person’s page. It should be said that for a successful search, the photo should not be covered by the user’s settings. In this case, attempts will not yield results.
Another problem is the lack of photography as such on the Internet. Some people prefer to put beautiful pictures instead of their photos. Therefore, the search becomes more difficult.
To find a user by photo:
- Log in to your VK account;
- Upload an image to your profile;
- Click on the picture to open it in full size;
- In the line where the page address is written, select the photo id and copy;
- Click on the News tab (in the column on the left);
- In the folder that opens on the right, select “Photos”;
- Place the cursor in the search bar and enter “copy:id from image”;
- Click search. The system will display all the results found. There may be a lot of them or none at all.
If there are many matches, you will have to check each of them. To do this, select a photo and, by clicking on it, see who posted the image. In this way you check everything until you find what you are looking for.
Please note that there are fake pages, so-called fake profiles. When they deliberately create accounts with the names and photographs of real people. This is done mainly for the purpose of fraud.
Through browsers
Any browser has the ability to search for images and photos. When using them, the system searches for matches across the entire existing database, and not just in the VK social network. To get started, open your browser. The principle is the same everywhere, let's look at an example using Google Chrome.
If you didn’t find the account you were looking for with such a photo, then it doesn’t exist or the photo is in a closed album.
In another browser, follow the example above. The algorithm is the same, only the interface may differ.
In the Yandex browser, select the Pictures tab on the main page.
Next, enter the path to the image you saved and click “Find”. Sometimes this way you can view already deleted photos in contact. And even pages. If your search is unsuccessful, do not be discouraged.
Yandex and Google allow you to search by faces and also find similar images.
Why is this necessary?
For example, this will help find other photos of a person from an existing photo.
I think the simplest thing is to find copies of the image in various formats, with additional elements, etc.
Let's take a photo of the famous actress Monica Bellucci and use it to test Yandex and Google.
Search engines have special operators that allow you to search by person.
Now we take a photo of a person from social networks, the result: 
Obviously, there are no other photos of this particular lady here, but there are plenty of relatively similar ones.
More nuances of Yandex image search are in the following video:
conclusions
| NEW: based on photos and other information. |
Finding copies of images is not difficult for search engines. However, if we are talking about searching by face for other photos of this person, for now such a search is more relevant for people who have a lot of photos on the Internet in open access for indexing.
Explore the article— here you can also find information about photo storage services, which can also be used to search for similar faces or specific people.
Finding a person via the Internet is quite simple - now almost everyone has their own page on social networks. You just need to somehow reach it.
There are several ways to do this (I talked about them), but they all rely on searching for information. You must indicate your first name, last name, age, city of residence and other information. But even if you know everything about a person, down to his blood type, this is not a guarantee that he will be found.
It’s a completely different matter if you have a photograph of him, even a general one. Now there are services that can recognize faces and search for pages on social networks.
Preparing the photo
First you need to crop the photo. Thus, we will reduce its size (usually it is large) and remove all unnecessary things. This is especially true if the photo is a group one.
1 . Start → Accessories - Windows → Paint.
2. Open the photo in this program (you can simply drag it inside the window).
3. Select the “Select” tool at the top and circle the desired person.
4 . Click the “Crop” button.
Search on VKontakte and Odnoklassniki
Search4faces is a special service for searching people on the social networks VKontakte and Odnoklassniki. To search, follow the link and click on the “Download” button.
Add a photo (you can simply drag it inside the window) and click “Upload”.
Then specify the necessary settings and click “Find”.
That's all - all that remains is to find your lost one in the list :)
Did not work out? Try the findclone.ru service. It works in a similar way, but searches only on VKontakte. Registration required.
Search the entire Internet
Search by image. There are two special services for this: one from Google (images.google.com), the other from Yandex (images.yandex.ru). They are very easy to use: you just need to drag the photo into the search bar.
Google Image Search
Search by image Yandex
The result will appear immediately. First, the same picture will be shown, but in other sizes (if available on the network), just below - similar photographs. Below are the Internet pages on which they are posted.
