Want to know what’s cool about this costume by Walter Plunkett? It’s one of only a couple of costumes that when I ran a reverse image search for an image from The Old Texas Trail, some of the results at the bottom popped up from In Old Oklahoma. Basically, Google recognized and was able to find the costume reuse itself.
Now, the costume had already been submitted me to me, and I was just hunting for photos I could legally use, but I dream of someday being able to input a costume I like and hope that it can find reuses all on its own. I think this really only works for reaaaally distinctive pieces.
A new reused costume searching strategy? Maybe?
More updates next week. Please keep sending in submissions.
Want to know what’s cool about this costume by Walter Plunkett? It’s one of only a couple of costumes that when I ran a reverse image search for an image from The Old Texas Trail, some of the results at the bottom popped up from In Old Oklahoma. Basically, Google recognized and was able to find the costume reuse itself.
Now, the costume had already been submitted me to me, and I was just hunting for photos I could legally use, but I dream of someday being able to input a costume I like and hope that it can find reuses all on its own. I think this really only works for reaaaally distinctive pieces.
A new reused costume searching strategy? Maybe?
More updates next week. Please keep sending in submissions.
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Costume Commentary
I’ve tried that with Google’s reverse image search in the past…and well it doesn’t work too well. You get like maybe 5% hits to 95% misses. It’s unfortunate because how helpful it would be if you KNOW you have seen this costume before but can’t remember where anymore. Seem neither the AI nor algorithm are as smart as we humans are.
Yeah, it’s not super accurate, but for reeeeally wild costumes it seems to pick up on it. It also picks up on reused costumes already documented, but that’s because it’s sourcing results from this website. I cannot tell you the amount of times I have gone looking for photos of a costume only to find…my own photos. Haha.
I also wish that I could choose the resolution size I’m looking for. Sometimes I have a picture but the resolution is so low and I just know that there must be an HQ of this photo out there but nope, I just get the same or an even lower resolution or something not even similar being sold on etsy and the likes. If it worked, how it was supposed to, I think I would like it more but unfortunately it doesn’t for me.
It used to be better, but google changed the way it works, which has made things harder. Another place to look is TinEye, which sorts by size.