What is AI Visual Search?
AI Visual Search is one of Canto's unique add-on features, making it easier than ever to find the best assets for your projects.
Canto's industry-leading AI understands what you want, without requiring you to memorize filenames or specific metadata. Whether you are looking for a "video of a woman rocking a baby to sleep", "images that convey a sense of tranquility", or want to see "pictures of people wearing red backpacks in the mountains", simply describe the content as if you are talking to a colleague. AI Visual Search will not only retrieve matching media from your Main Library instantly but will also highlight relevant clips within video assets, making editing effortless.
AI Visual Search can also assist you in keeping your library consistent and well maintained. Quickly identify untagged content, add metadata to assets, and detect blurry, non-compliant, or off-brand assets to ensure a high-quality, consistent experience across all touchpoints.
How does it work?
AI Visual Search combines three powerful components to create a unique and unmatched search experience.
Data mapping
Once enabled on your tenant, AI Visual Search analyzes the visual data in image and video assets, and maps them based on the following categories.
- Subjects and objects in the scene
- Actions performed
- Time of day
- Emotion
- Lighting
- Composition
- Colors
- Perspective
As your library expands, AI Visual Search keeps track of every new asset, ensuring that its knowledge is always up-to-date.
Natural language processing
AI Visual Search is able to understand natural language.
Instead of having to find the right combination of keywords, you can phrase your search as if you were talking to a human colleague, and AI Visual Search will interpret your query against the detailed information it has collected about your assets to find the perfect match.
Hybrid Search
While other solutions treat managing metadata and using AI-assisted search as distinct tasks, each requiring its own effort to maintain and use, AI Visual Search combines the strengths of visual and metadata search capabilities into a single system.
By analyzing facial recognition data, audio transcriptions, and your own custom metadata – such as product names, locations, or SKU numbers – alongside the visual data of your assets, AI Visual Search not only enhances the accuracy of its results but also significantly speeds up the asset discovery process, making your work more efficient and effective.
How do I access AI Visual Search?
The best way to fully experience the capabilities of this extremely powerful tool is by experimenting with your search terms and discovering all that it can do for you.
If you are interested in enabling AI Visual Search for your account, do not hesitate to reach out to your Account Manager. Alternatively, you can submit a support request, and our capable customer service team will answer any questions you might have.
If AI Visual Search has already been added to your account, and you are wondering how to start using it, please visit the article How to: Use AI Visual Search.
How does AI Visual Search handle my data?
AI Visual Search is powered by Canto's proprietary AI, which ensures that no information is shared with a third party, and your assets never leave your Canto account storage. All of Canto's security and compliance standards are maintained when you use AI Visual Search, and you always have full control over the safety of your assets. When Canto's AI maps the visual data of your image and video assets, it never receives access to the original files, and instead works in a self-contained environment. To further ensure the confidentiality of your data, the AI will not process any audio, text-based documents, or presentations.