3-D imagery revolutionises internet search engines
3-D imagery revolutionises internet search engines
New 3-D searchable engines have been developed for world wide search engines to help industrial companies and engineers save time and money in finding parts essential for their business needs.
The latest developments have been carried out by computer researchers at Purdue University in America. They have designed a system which can search for 3-D objects, such as airplane parts or architectural designs.
All the user has to do is sketch an image of the desired object and wait for the engine to return back items which match the image. Present 2-D image search engines, such as Google's picture search program, only mine for the text surrounding photographs, but do not actually match images for images, unlike the Purdue University engine.
Princeton University has already put a 3-D search engine on the world wide web, which allows anybody to draw an object using a computer mouse, add a text description and then search for models which match the drawing on design databases.
Alterations can be made to the drawing too, until the user can find the desired matching objects exactly.
The 3-D engine developed at Purdue University is intended for industrial company use to prevent these companies from wasting time looking for specialist parts to add to their inventory. The researchers hope the new improved engines will find necessary parts much more quickly, because the desired images will be brought up instantly.
Boeing Co. engineers created their own 3-D search engine a few years ago to find valuable parts, and have experienced better productivity and efficiency through its use.
The benefits are bound to reach many other people in the future too.
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