@rlvl Hi Rudy. Thanks for checking it out! We've been using a visual search service on the site for some time now and wanted to create something that would be fun and engaging for the summer. So, our partner created a new endpoint to provide user photos to then match against our existing catalog of available artworks for sale (up to this point, you could only search visually, starting from an existing artwork on the site). The results are returned and we display them based on artwork quality and likeness to the uploaded image. There was some work done to create a stitched image of the uploaded work and the matched artwork. We then wanted to incentivize the sharing of these matches across social media with a sweepstakes. Go ahead and share yours and you could win $1000 to spend on Saatchi Art. :)
On a related note, we recently introduced the same visual-search-from-a-user-photo to our iOS app. Check that out, too!
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