This article presents a complete image‑search solution that extracts visual features with the VGG16 model, stores them in the Milvus vector database, and provides a set of web APIs for training, querying, counting, searching, and deleting image vectors, all deployed via Docker containers.
This article explains how the Milvus vector database and the Towhee embedding framework together enable large‑scale, high‑throughput semantic analysis and retrieval of unstructured data such as images, video, and audio by leveraging AI‑powered vectorization and search pipelines.
iQIYI’s engineering team built an online vector‑recall service on Milvus, wrapping it with a Dubbo‑gRPC interface to serve 6 M 64‑dimensional embeddings at roughly 3 k QPS and 20 ms p99 latency, integrating query‑embedding generation, simplifying recommendation pipelines, and demonstrating the performance and operational advantages of a platformized ANN‑based recall layer.
This article describes how Dingxiangyuan's algorithm team adopted Milvus for distributed vector indexing to improve semantic search in their community forum, detailing the background, retrieval workflow, various embedding models—including Bi‑Encoder, Spherical Embedding, and Knowledge Embedding—and summarizing the benefits and future applications.
This article describes the two‑generation evolution of Youpai Image Manager's billion‑scale image search system, explaining the mathematical representation of images, the limitations of MD5, the first‑generation pHash‑ElasticSearch solution, and the second‑generation CNN‑Milvus approach for robust, large‑scale visual similarity search.
This article walks through the complete engineering workflow for building an image‑search system, covering CNN‑based feature extraction with VGG16, vector normalization, image preprocessing, black‑edge removal, and practical deployment of the Milvus vector database including hardware requirements, capacity planning, collection/partition design, and search result handling.
This article explains the fundamentals of building an image‑by‑image search system, covering image feature extraction methods such as hashing, traditional descriptors, CNN‑based vectors, and the use of vector search engines like Milvus for similarity retrieval.
