[Neasis-l] Developments in image retrieval

[Caryn Anderson]

Hello NEASIST colleagues,

I just discovered another interesting development in image retrieval.
Some of you already know of this, but I thought I would share this
link to retreivR. "retrievr is an experimental service which lets you
search and explore in a selection of Flickr images by drawing a rough
sketch." (About retrievR):

http://labs.systemone.at/retrievr/

You draw in the box (variety of line and color tools to choose from)
and it finds pictures from FlickR similar to what you draw.

*Be careful, it is easy to get lost for a while...

Cheers,
Caryn

P.S. Some tech specs from the site (Christian Langreiter): "retrievr
is based on research conducted by Chuck Jacobs, Adam Finkelstein and
David Salesin at the University of Washington: Fast Multiresolution
Image Querying (1995).

I first came across the algorithm when someone (I think Edd Dumbill)
linked to imgSeek a couple of years back; imgSeek is a standalone
image management application that incorporates that algorithm as
well.

retrievr is a new implementation in pure Python (and a host of great
libraries: Fredrik Lundh's PIL and aggdraw as well as numarray). The
frontend has been created using Helma and Macromedia Flash."

-- 
Caryn Anderson
Program Coordinator
PhD in Managerial Leadership in the Information Professions
GSLIS, Simmons College
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