Find people in your photos without labeling anything
Why CLIP cannot tell people apart, what to use instead, and how clustering discovers everyone in your library with almost no input.
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Finding things in your own files
Search your own photos, documents and archives with models that run locally.
Image search, face recognition, document search, embeddings, active learning.
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Find anything in your own photo library, offline
A seven-part series on building a private image search tool that learns which photos you actually want.
Search Your Own Photo Library Offline With CLIP, Start to Finish
Index a folder of photos with CLIP and search it by typing what you remember seeing, with no cloud and no API key.
Set up CLIP and index a photo folder offline
Install CLIP, download the weights once, cut the network, and turn a folder of photos into a searchable index.
Search photos by description, and why it plateaus
How a sentence gets compared to a photo with one matrix multiply, how to read the scores, and why text search plateaus.
Why CLIP Finds a Welding Table But Not Your Welding Table
Text search ranks by distance to one fixed point that sits in the wrong place, so fit a boundary on your own labels instead.