a really early version of this:
http://draves.org/fuse/
published as open source in the early 90s.
not NN but does have the same image matching/searching.
Fascinating link, but that was arguably different: In the case of the Google links, the neural network was built for other uses, and the "image fusion" is only a side effect... It is a sort of "proof" that some really interesting things are happening behind the scenes.
In the older approaches, the image fusion was the primary intent of the system. Still very cool, but much less impressive IMHO.
In the older approaches, the image fusion was the primary intent of the system. Still very cool, but much less impressive IMHO.