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I'm looking for a desktop search engine for finding images on my local hard drive with high visual similarity. I've only found paid for ones so far. It could be linux or windows one, either would be helpful.

A google desktop plugin would be nice!

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Are you looking for a duplicate image detector to find graphics files that are the same but not bit-wise identical? – Synetech Jul 17 '11 at 18:36
No I'm looking for all images that look similar, such as originals and their subsequently processed versions, even if they are in different formats. I know it's a tall ask – barrymac Jul 17 '11 at 18:54
That’s what I mean. And no, it’s not. – Synetech Jul 17 '11 at 22:02
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Google has a new service here: http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi

In Chrome (and some other browsers but not all) click the camera icon on the right hand end of the search field to open the dialog.

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That service is nice but it refers to web search as opposed to local desktop hard drive search – barrymac Jul 17 '11 at 18:26
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Tineye image search has a plugin.

http://www.tineye.com/

Edit:

For a local CBIR engine, there are a couple out there. From the makers of Tineye is Pixmatch!!

http://ideeinc.com/products/pixmatch/

While it requires you to upload images and have it scan it, it is actually very accurate.

A local version would be Octogan. It's not that accurate.

http://octagon.viitala.eu/

While googling, this page did catch my eye. I'm having it index my picture collection currently. It looks promising.

http://www.semanticmetadata.net/features/

It has two parts. Caliph is the indexer. Emir is the query engine. Nice play on names huh?

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Are you sure this is for searching the local hard drive as opposed to the web? – ChrisF Jul 17 '11 at 21:42
Oops, fail. That is a different story. I'll edit. – surfasb Jul 17 '11 at 22:39
@ChrisF: You can check local images from your HDD as well, but you would have to do it one at a time, without an AutoIt or python/mechanize script or something. There is an API though, which could probably be used for batch processing. – paradroid Jul 17 '11 at 22:45
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