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130. Design a Visual Search System
Search by photo over a billion images: contrastive embeddings from engagement pairs, object crops, IVF-PQ with re-scoring, versioned indexes.
ClassicMedium
Machine learning AWS Computer vision
+3
Embeddings Retrieval Visual search
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147. Design Street View Blurring
Blur every face and licence plate in billions of street panoramas: tiles for tiny faces, recall-first detection, a batch pipeline that fails closed.
ClassicMedium
Machine learning Privacy AWS
+2
Computer vision Object detection
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