ContentBased Image Retrieval

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Content-Based Image Retrieval

• Project Proposal
• by
• Charlie Neo

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Problem

• The Growth of Digital Imaging
• Difficulty of Locating Images on the Web
• Feature Extraction
• Automated Object Recognition

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Work Done

• MIT Photobook
• IBM QBIC
• Virage (Altavista)
• Excalibur (Yahoo)
• VisualSEEk
• Etc.

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How is it done

• Color (Histogram)
• Texture
• Shape/Structure
• Spatial Location
• Statistical
• Wavelet
• Semantic
• Feedback

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My Proposal

• Better Combination of Text and Content Search
• Better User Interaction
• User Define Area of Interest

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Evaluation

• Create Image Database
• Satisfactory Result
• Survey
• Manually Assign Similar Images