Impressive.

How do you actually pull up the search?

What's also great is that you can search for people who have been tagged in your photos. And it works with just first names too!

+Jason Stewart In the left navbar pull up Photos, and then in the menu button (top right) select Search Photos.

+Tor Norbye weird... I don't seem to have that option. 

ah... it was in the menu... I figured hitting the search button would do it.

it seems really incredible!

You have the latest Google+ client which shipped around yesterday right? Maybe it's rolling out gradually. I'm pretty sure this is public because I knew nothing about it before seeing it in Vic Gundotra's post this morning and then trying it myself!

Phew :-)

+Tor Norbye I figured it out.,.. Since I have a phone that has the capacitive buttons at the bottom, you have to hit the menu bar to bring up the search function. 

WOW! You're not kidding! I got amazing results!

Sad to see yet another feature that's only working in English. At least, searching for German words doesn't give any result while searching for the equivalent English term works like charm. 

+Felix Homann Surely that's to be expected, given the nationality of the company? It's frustrating for the moment, yes, but I'm sure it'll be rolled out in other languages soon.

Awesome! Easily found pictures of the golden gate I took while I was at I/O last week!!

I could hardly see a snake on some of the pictures! It's amazing how advanced computer vision has become.

+Nick Stringer I don't think so. Just look at Google Now which doesn't speak to you in any other language than English - for almost a year now. I like to ask my phone "Will Google Now speak to me tomorrow?" :-) 

http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/05/21/googles-best-new-unadvertised-feature-photo-search-with-visual-recognition-try-it-on-your-own-pictures-and-be-amazed/ h/t +Tor Norbye 

It's amazing! 

Search for colors - red, green, yellow......yeah, it's pretty cool.   Also, I searched for  tuxedo and found all my kid's prom pictures. :-)

I wonder if this is the first output from +Geoffrey Hinton .. he helped +Alex Krizhevsky  and +Yann LeCun  win the ImageNet image recognition competition by a long shot this year and just joined Google. 

Actually, the 2012 Imagenet competition was won by Alex Krizhevsky (with assistance from Ilya Sutskever and me) using a deep convolutional neural network of the kind pioneered by Yann LeCun, but with some extra bells and whistles.

the photo recognition section was one of those magical moments in the keynote where you just go BOOM!

The problem here is only available in english. i search for perro (dog) and in spanish no found nothing but in english found the photos well. It will be a matter of time, hope.

Sorry Prof. +Geoffrey Hinton , I wanted to attribute the prize to +Alex Krizhevsky and +Yann LeCun but their names escaped me at the time.  Thanks for the correction.  Either way, is this Google Plus image search something you've already contributed?

This is absolutely amazing. I can't believe I can search through my photos like that. Well done Google.

+Tor Norbye So this kind of happened: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1etncz/google_can_now_identify_random_untagged_objects/

Some public G+ posts by  Googlers seem to suggest that this image tagger is built around a convolutional network, most likely of the type +Alex Krizhevsky, +Ilya Sutskever and +Geoffrey Hinton  used to win the 2012 ImageNet competition. 
As Goeff mentions in an earlier reply, I developed the convolutional network method many years ago while I was at Bell Labs. and refined it method over the last 10 years. Alex, Ilya and Geoff  contributed a couple more tricks as well as a very efficient implementation on GPUs, which enabled training on large datasets like the one in the ImageNet competition.

There is an online demo from our lab at NYU of a convnet trained on ImageNet: http://horatio.cs.nyu.edu

Getting back to my previous comment I have to admit that Google Now started talking to me today :-) 

wow. that is impressive. I didnt know it could do that.

+Tor Norbye : For what app is that icon next to the Gmail notification?

+Danny Roa I think it's PocketCasts; I was listening to a podcast while taking the screenshot.

Very impressive. Did a search on my own photos and works great. I think Google will become self aware in the next 2-3 years. 

Yeah its amazing



Impressive, but how do we know it's actually computer vision, and not a product of  Google Image Labeler or similar approach?

These are my private photos, and some of them are very recent so it seems implausible that there would have been human involvement. Try it on your own photo collection! With lots of different search terms! (Besides, see earlier comments in this thread for some known computer vision approaches in this field.)

+Andrei Chtcherbatchenko Heh? E.g. by trying it out...

So is the D-Wave behind any of this +Tor Norbye ? I remember reading about it in 2009 and being blown away for many reasons http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2009/12/machine-learning-with-quantum.html ... Very exciting and fascinating stuff.

You need to go hiking somewhere else. ;-)

+Michael Lawler unlikely, see Yan's comment above.

+Jeff Axelrod interesting, thanks. I had missed that comment.

It would be good if Photo Search could be integrated into the Gallery app on Android, given that it already syncs Google+ photos.