Project information
Content-based Image Retrieval on the Web Scale
(VisualWeb)
- Project Identification
- GAP103/10/0886
- Project Period
- 1/2010 - 12/2012
- Investor / Pogramme / Project type
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Czech Science Foundation
- Standard Projects
- MU Faculty or unit
- Faculty of Informatics
- Keywords
- similarity search; content-based retrieval; distributed indexing; scalability
Digital images form a large part of the Web content and proprietary image collections and their amount grows at enormous speed. Current techniques for searching in images are not satisfactory because search engines restrict image search to associated text or attribute annotations. Although content-based image retrieval techniques are improving with respect to effectiveness, they are still limited in the volume of images they can handle - the scalability is still a serious problem.
This project aims at developing an innovative network technology platform which will allow organizing billions of images and searching by visual content. To enhance perceived quality of search results, specific techniques for clustering and ranking of results will also be developed. The platform will be tested on large image collections to demonstrate its properties. Several institutions and companies offering services such as online content-based retrieval, detection of plagiarism, filtering pornographic material, and brand reputation analysis based on logo detection, will cooperate as data providers.
Publications
Total number of publications: 22
2012
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Query Language for Complex Similarity Queries
Advances in Databases and Information Systems, LNCS 7503, year: 2012
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Visual Image Search: Feature Signatures or/and Global Descriptors
Similarity Search and Applications, year: 2012
2011
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Evaluation Platform for Content-based Image Retrieval Systems
International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries 2011, LNCS 6966, year: 2011
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Metric index: an efficient and scalable solution for precise and approximate similarity search
Information Systems, year: 2011, volume: 36, edition: 4, DOI
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MUFIN at ImageCLEF 2011: Success or Failure?
CLEF 2011 Labs and Workshop, Notebook Papers; CEUR Workshop Proceedings Vol. 1177, year: 2011
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Online Image Annotation
4th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP 2011), year: 2011
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Proximity-based Order-respecting Intersection for Searching in Image Databases
8th International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval, AMR'2010, year: 2011
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Searching for Sub-images using Sequence Alignment
IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM 2011), year: 2011
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Stabilizing the Recall in Similarity Search
Fourth International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications, SISAP 2011, year: 2011
2010
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Audio Similarity Retrieval Engine
Third International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications, year: 2010