Sisi
AI
image search
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How HN took it
2 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score -0.10.
Idea: 2 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful alternative or idea for semantic photo search
From 2 comments
I was planning to do this myself lol. I was going to use SQLite as the index, and use `sqlite-vec` or something similar to query for similar files directly. I think the only…
notsylver on HNVery cool! Here is a similar python version. https://github.com/spullara/photoindex Oh and if you want to run something locally on your iphone you can use my app I am still…
spullara on HN
Objections
Very slow indexing, uses only one core on Linux
From 2 comments
Uses only 1 core 100% under linux, can this be changed? 10 images, each ~20 kb size, took more than 10 minutes to index, is that normal without GPU-acceleration?
progx on HNWow that’s atrocious performance. So there’s no chance to use this on real photos
sureIy on HN
Name means something offensive in Russian and other languages
From 2 comments
In russian, "sisi" is a variation of "tits". Is there a job/services that confirm that branding is appropriate across different languages? Seems like a non trivial problem to…
ivanjermakov on HNIt's definitely not a good name in English either
phito on HN
Requests
Support for describing image contents, not just searching
From 1 comment
This is cool. Is there also a way to show contents of the image as indexed? i.e. image 1 has cat and dog There are a lot of tool/apps that let you “search images” but not much…
sureIy on HN
Filters such as negation, similarity threshold and file size
From 1 comment
I was planning to do this myself lol. I was going to use SQLite as the index, and use `sqlite-vec` or something similar to query for similar files directly. I think the only…
notsylver on HN
Questions
How does CLIP compare to YOLO
From 1 comment
How does CLIP compare to YOLO[1]? I haven't looked into image classification/object recognition for a while, but I remember that YOLO was quite good was working on realtime video…
y04nn on HN
Whether CLIP is superseded by multimodal LLMs
From 1 comment
Isn‘t clip superseeded by multimodal llms?
Jack5500 on HN
Alternatives named
rclip
From 1 comment
using same app rclip: https://github.com/yurijmikhalevich/rclip
yburkov on HN
photoindex
From 1 comment
Very cool! Here is a similar python version. https://github.com/spullara/photoindex Oh and if you want to run something locally on your iphone you can use my app I am still…
spullara on HN
Queryable
From 1 comment
I've been enjoying https://github.com/mazzzystar/Queryable on iPhone
petesergeant on HN