Akiwi is a new website designed to help you easily find photos that are associated with keywords. It is based on a semi-automatic image tagging system that is easier than manual and more accurate than automatic image recognition.
The site was created as a student project at the university HTW Berlin. It uses one collection from 22 million photos and can even suggest keywords in unknown photos uploaded by users.
Additionally, the site recognizes the basic colors of your photo, which they consider to be tagged, and suggests similar photography in the same basic colors. This is a good search if you want to find photos, say about a website you make, that suits yours.
On its home page site Akiwi Asks you to upload a photo. Then the website will analyze your photo and put keyword on it. At the same time, 10 will suggest other photos that have corresponding keywords. You have the right to set your own additional keywords. and from there you can browse groups of photos until you find the one you are interested in.
In ours essay the Akiwi website gave us the following results:
Below the photos originally suggested by the site you can see the keywords recognized by the website. You can mark one or more words to narrow the search. At the bottom right you also see the field where you can set your own keyword for your photo.
Notice that the site has suggested photos with the same basic colors as ours.
Pressing the Finalize button indicates that you have found what you wanted and so your website refers to the ability to copy the selected photo or photos to the Clipboard.
The Akiwi website according to its makers is still in progress, and has just been updated in the 1.1 version.
