Eakins, J P and Graham, M E.
Content-based image retrieval.
Report to JISC Technology Applications Programme, January 1999
http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/report.html
(Institute for IMAGE DATA research)
Remco C. Veltkamp, Mirela Tanase
Content-Based Image Retrieval Systems: A Survey
Technical Report UU-CS-2000-34, October 2000.
(Shape algorithmics group, Institute of Information & Computing Science, University Utrecht)
Abstract:
Survey of 39 CBIR systems with detailed description of algorithmic aspects
AltaVista Photofinder
URL http://image.altavista.com/cgi-bin/avncgi
Amore (Advanced Multimedia Oriented Retrieval Engine)
Developer C & C Research Laboratories NEC USA, Inc.
URL http://www.ccrl.com/amore/
Berkeley Digital Library Project
Developer University of California, Berkeley.
URL The homepage of project is at http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/
demo of retrieval from all photos in the collection is at http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/photos/all.shtml
Blobworld
Developer Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley.
URL http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/photos/blobworld/
A demo of Blobworld is available at http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/photos/blobworld/start.html
CANDID (Comparison Algorithm for Navigating Digital Image Databases)
Developer Computer Research and Applications Group, Los Alamos National
Laboratory, USA.
URL http://public.lanl.gov/kelly/CANDID/index.shtml
C-bird (Content-Based Image Retrieval from Digital libraries)
Developer School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby,
B.C., Canada.
URL http://jupiter.cs.sfu.ca/cbird/
Chabot
Developer Department of Computer Science, University of California,
Berkeley, CA, USA.
URL http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~ginger/chabot.html.
Chabot has evolved into Cypress (which, surprisingly, seems not to
have inherited content based query capability).
For a demo of Cypress, see http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/photos/.
CBVQ (Content-Based Visual Query)
Developer Image and Advanced Television Lab, Columbia university, NY.
URL http://maya.ctr.columbia.edu:8088/cbvq/.
DrawSearch
Developer Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Technical
University of Bari, Italy.
URL A demo is available at http://deecom03.poliba.it/DrawSearch/DrawSearch.html.
Excalibur Visual RetrievalWare
Developer Excalibur Technologies.
URL http://vrw.excalib.com/.
A demo isavailable at http://vrw.excalib.com:8015/cst.
FIR (Formula Image Retrieval)
Developer Developed by Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics,
Darmstadt, Germany, in association with Txt Ingegneria Informatica S.P.A.
(Italy), Giunti Multimedia Srl (Italy), Epsilon Software (Greece), and
Kino TV & Movie Productions S.A. (Greece), as part of the Esprit IV
project FORMULA.
URL http://www.igd.fhg.de/igd-a7/projects/formula/formula_e.html
FOCUS (Fast Object Color-based Query System)
Developer Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, MA.
URL http://wagga.cs.umass.edu/~mdas/color_proj.html.
A demo of the system is available at http://cowarie.cs.umass.edu/~colordemo/mdas/demo1/phase0.html.
ImageFinder
Developer Attrasoft Inc.
URL http://attrasoft.com/abm3_4.html.
ImageMiner
Developer Technologie-Zentrum Informatik, Univerity of Bremen, Germany.
URL http://www.tzi.de/bv/ImageMinerhtml/.
ImageRETRO (Image RETrieval by Reduction and Overview)
Developer Department of Computer Science, University of Amsterdam,
The Netherlands.
URL http://carol.wins.uva.nl/~vendrig/imageretro/.
For a demo of the system, look at http://python.wins.uva.nl:6022/.
ImageRover
Developer Department of Computer Science, Boston University, MA.
URL http://www.cs.bu.edu/groups/ivc/ImageRover/.
For a demo of the system, look at http://www.cs.bu.edu/groups/ivc/ImageRover/demo.html.
ImageScape
Developer Department of Computer Science, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
URL http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/home/lim/image.scape.html.
A demo of the system is available at http://skynet.liacs.nl/imagescape
Informedia (* Eakins paper)
Informedia website is at http://informedia.cs.cmu.edu/
commercially-available system based on Informedia technology, is at
http://www.islip.com/fprod.htm
Jacob (Just A COntent Based query system for video databases)
Developer Computer Science & Arti cial Intelligence Lab, University
ofPalermo, Italy.
URL http://www.csai.unipa.it:80/research/projects/jacob/.
A demo is available at site http://www.csai.unipa.it:80/research/projects/jacob/jacob_demos.html.
LCPD (Leiden 19th Century Portrait Database)
Developer Department of Computer Science, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
URL http://ind156b.wi.leidenuniv.nl:2000/.
A demo of the system is available at site http://ind156b.wi.leidenuniv.nl:2000/cgi-bin/image_demo6.0.pl.
MARS (Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval System)
Developer Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, further developed at Department of Information and Computer
Science, University of California at Irvine, CA.
URL http://www-db.ics.uci.edu/pages/research/mars.shtml.
Demos are available at location http://www-db.ics.uci.edu/pages/demos/index.shtml.
MetaSEEk
Developer Image and Advanced Television Lab, Columbia University, NY,
USA.
URL http://www.ctr.columbia.edu/metaseek/.
MIR (Multimodal Information Retrieval System)
Developer Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition,
University at Bu alo, NY, USA.
URL http://www.cedar.buffalo.edu/MMIR/.
A demo of the system is available at webaddress http://www.cedar.Buffalo.EDU/MMIR/demo/index.html.
NETRA
Developer Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University
of California, Santa Barbara, CA.
URL http://maya.ece.ucsb.edu/Netra/.
A demo of the system is available at webaddress http://maya.ece.ucsb.edu/Netra/netra.html.
Photobook
Developer Vision and Modeling Group, MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge,
MA.
URL http://vismod.www.media.mit.edu/vismod/demos/photobook/index.html.
A demo is available at http://vismod.www.media.mit.edu/cgi-bin/tpminka/query?vistex,,,10.
Picasso
Developer Visual Information Processing Lab, University of Florence,
Italy.
URL http://viplab.dsi.unifi.it/PICASSO.
A web demo of the system can be evaluated at http://vesna.dsi.unifi.it/~picasso/picasso/.
PicHunter
Developer NEC Research Institute, Princeton, NJ, USA.
PicToSeek
Developer Department of Computer Science, University of Amsterdam,
The Netherlands.
URL http://www.science.uva.nl/research/isis/pictoseek/.
A demo of the system is available at http://zomax.wins.uva.nl:5345/ret_user/.
QBIC (Query By Image Content) Developer IBM Almaden Research
Center, San Jose, CA.
URL http://wwwqbic.almaden.ibm.com/.
A demo version of the system is available at site http://wwwqbic.almaden.ibm.com/cgi-bin/stamps-demo.
At http://wwwqbic.almaden.ibm.com/tmdemo/
is a demonstration as trademark server.
SQUID (Shape Queries Using Image Databases)
Developer Centre for Vision, Speech, and Signal Processing, University
of Surrey, UK.
URL http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Research/VSSP/imagedb/demo.html.
A demo is available at http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Research/VSSP/imagedb/squid.html.
Surfimage
Developer INRIA, Rocquencourt, France.
URL http://www-rocq.inria.fr/imedia/index_UK.html.
A demo of the system is available at http://www-rocq.inria.fr/cgi-bin/imedia/surfimage.cgi.
SYNAPSE (SYNtactic APpearance Search Engine)
Developer Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, University
of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
URL http://hobart.cs.umass.edu/~mmedia/.
A demo of the system is available at the address http://cowarie.cs.umass.edu/~demo/Demo.html.
TODAI (Typographic Ornament Database And Identi cation)
Developer Computer Science Department, EPFL, Switzerland.
URL http://www.unil.ch/BCU/docs/collecti/res_prec/en/wtres/todai_doc.html.
VIR Image Engine
The VIR Image Engine is an extensible framework for building content
based image retrieval systems.
Developer Virage Inc.
An on-line demonstration can be found at http://www.virage.com/online/.
URL http://www.virage.com/products/vir-irw.html.
VISOO (* )
Developer: Cobion GmbH, Germany
Demo available at site http://www.visoo.de
VisualSEEk
Developer Image and Advanced Television Lab, Columbia University, NY.
URL http://www.ctr.columbia.edu/VisualSEEk/.
VP Image Retrieval System
Developer National Center for Science Information Systems, University
of Tokyo, Japan.
URL http://www.rd.nacsis.ac.jp/.
WebSEEk
Developer Image and Advanced Television Lab, Columbia University, NY.
URL http://www.ctr.columbia.edu/WebSEEk/.
WebSeer
Developer Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago, Illinois,
USA.
URL http://infolab.cs.uchicago.edu/webseer/.
WISE (Wavelet Image Search Engine)
Developer Department of Computer Science, Stanford Univerity.
URL http://www-db.stanford.edu/~wangz/project/imsearch/.
A demo of the system is available at http://bergman.stanford.edu/~zwang/project/imsearch/WBIIS.html