In this post, you will learn about a solution approach for searching similar images out of numerous images matching an input image (query) using machine learning / deep learning technology. This is also called a reverse image search. The image search is generally searching for images based on keywords.
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The CSS API is easily integrated with your existing technology, regardless of the languages and tools you use.
The CSS API is a REST-based API, delivered over HTTP or HTTPS in JSON format. REST/JSON bindings are available in all major programming languages. We also support a growing number of language-specific libraries to make integration very straight forward. Our documentation and libraries are extensive.
Multiple image query support including JPEG, PNG, or GIF. Query images can be specified by a publicly accessible image URL, or uploaded.
The CSS API searches the CSS index which is an index of a large cross section of the web. The CSS index is at 41,274,531,291 images today.