Thread by @cyb_detective

15 reverse face image search tips

- search engines
- AI image editing tools to enhance the quality of search results
- how to reverse face image search without photos
- quick face search on video
- protect yourself

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#osint #socmint

When searching on Google, use not only Lens, but also the OLD image search (which gives very different results). You can access it using this tool:



🧵 1 googlelens.imagesniper.eu

A very good tool for searching for faces and images in general, which is often more effective than Google. It also recognises text in images and translates it.

🧵 2 yandex.ru/images/

Reverse face search in TikTok, ClubHouse, Vkontakte, Odnoklassniki and Public figures database. Over a billion images of people indexed!

🧵 3 search4faces.com

This tool is paid, but sometimes it is more effective than Yandex and Google. Fortunately, you can find out if it will be useful for a particular photo for free (but the links are hidden).

🧵 4 pimeyes.com

It's also quite good. It differs from the analogues mentioned above in that it has a tab with links to an exact copy of the original picture.

🧵 5 bing.com/images/

Even if all of the above search engines didn't help you, don't give up! Try others:






etc

🧵 6 image.baidu.com
tineye.com
numlookup.com/reverse-image-…
image.so.com

The most important thing when gathering information about a person is to get the MAXIMUM number of photos of them. When one photo doesn't help you find anything, another may help you find everything

But if you have only one photo..... Do the others yourself!

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Use AI image editing tools to change a person's age, eye colour, hair colour and skin colour. And then try to search for different image variants in the services described above.



🧵 8 huggingface.co/spaces/editing…

Special attention should be paid to the direction of gaze (which can change facial proportions and affect search results). You can change it using this service (click "Look at bird"):



🧵 9 hey-photo.com

When a person takes selfies, their face looks different than when someone else takes their picture. Therefore, image mirroring can make a big difference in facial search results:



🧵 10 resizepixel.com/mirror-image/

Very often the only images available are of the person in group photos, where the faces are blurred or too small. This is where AI services come in handy:

- face upscale

- unblur

- enhance/upscale

🧵 11 huggingface.co/spaces/doevent…
app.remini.ai
letsenhance.io

If the image cannot be reconstructed (or there is only an image stored in human memory), you can make a identikit of the person in and try to search by it ( works quite well)

🧵12 facemaker.uvrg.org
search4faces.com

If you're good at drawing (or are willing to be persistent), you can try drawing a portrait of a person and generating a photo from it using AI:



🧵 13 scribblediffusion.com

Sometimes you have to cut out images of faces to search from the video. To quickly find images of all the characters that appear in a particular video (as well as different images of the same person), use this tool:



🧵 14 huggingface.co/spaces/fffilon…

If you want to post a photo of yourself online but don't want to be easily found, use AI tools to anonymise faces:





🧵 15 generated.photos/anonymizer
piktid.com
hey-photo.com/tools/anonymize

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