Dear participants,

I am a student in Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation. I am doing research for my final year project which is titled ”A Reverse Image Search Engine to Detect Similarities and Plagiarism Cases (I-Check)”. The purpose of this research is to understand further the user and their behaviour regarding image plagiarism.

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