Image-based Similarity Search
With the image similarity search, you can explore an inventory of several million automatically recognised images. The images include both individual illustrations (photos, graphics, paintings) and illustrations in books or manuscripts. The search criterion applied relates to the similarity of image motifs according to purely outward characteristics such as colours, textures or contrasts.
You can search for people, animals, plants, landscapes, coats of arms, book covers, miniatures or initials. Give it a go and search for "digital twins".










![Hornbach, Emil [Arzt]](https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/image/v2/bav:BSB-BAR-0000000000148296/100,387,3087,4682/400,/0/default.jpg)

![Luitpold <Bayern, Prinzregent> [1821-1912]](https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/image/v2/bav:BSB-BAR-0000000000000753/2917,644,1165,1774/400,/0/default.jpg)


![[Kapelle Stiefler, Pittersdorf]](https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/image/v2/bav:FFV-BAR-00000BAV80063034_bav80063034_00001/1226,71,381,596/400,/0/default.jpg)


![Forst, Willi [Schauspieler, Regisseur, Schriftsteller, Filmproduzent 1896-1951]](https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/image/v2/bav:BSB-BAR-0000000000063226/20,56,3566,5298/400,/0/default.jpg)
![Albers, Hans [Sänger, Schauspieler 1891-1960]](https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/image/v2/bav:BSB-BAR-0000000000062654/122,231,3556,5363/400,/0/default.jpg)
![Lollobrigida, Gina [Schauspielerin 1927-2023]](https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/image/v2/bav:BSB-BAR-0000000000242763/2256,13,3273,4009/400,/0/default.jpg)


![[Hebanzer Musikanten 1909]](https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/image/v2/bav:FFV-BAR-0000000000120817/3078,491,543,856/400,/0/default.jpg)

![[Wandergruppe vor dem Wirtshaus von Hans Schöffels Großvater, Weidenberg]](https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/image/v2/bav:FFV-BAR-0000000000121662/3909,917,529,857/400,/0/default.jpg)






















![[Pittersdorfer Kerwamusik auf Kirchweih in Gesees, 1924]](https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/image/v2/bav:FFV-BAR-0000000000121568/3825,769,518,692/400,/0/default.jpg)
