» About the Image Retrieval Application

The Image Retrieval Application is a Java implementation of a part of the document Real-Time Computerized Annotation of Pictures proposed by Jia Li and James Z. Wang from The Pennsylvania State University, USA. It is an image retrieval by content software, meaning that it uses complex algorithms to return the best images from a database that match whatever the user searched for. Copyright of the demo images belongs to Jia Li (http://www.stat.psu.edu/~jiali/index.download.html).

We have developed this project to show that image retrieval by content is possible, that it provides fairly good results and that it can be applied to numerous fields (for instance, a WordPress plug-in could be developed to support image tags, allowing visitors to search not only by text, but by image too).

You can find out more about the techniques we used in this project by visiting the "Used Techniques" section.

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Tudor-Alexandru Dobrila

» 2nd year student @ the Faculty of Computer Science, Al. Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania
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Ariel Chelsau

» 2nd year student @ the Faculty of Computer Science, Al. Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania
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