Show HN: Search photos on Unsplash using natural language queries

I processed 2M images from the Unsplash dataset with CLIP and stored the feature vector representation of each photo (a 512 element vector). You can now encode a text query with CLIP in the same latent space and search the database.

I also tried doing some simple arithmetic with the feature vectors to combine the result of a search query and a photo. You can for example search for "Sydney Opera house" and give it a bight photo and you will get a photo of the Sydney Opera at night.

You can directly jump to the Google Colab notebook if you want to give it a try: https://colab.research.google.com/github/haltakov/natural-la...