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I-Search Project

Visual information retrieval is a new subject of research in information technology. Its purpose is to retrieval from a database, images or image sequences that are relevant to a query. It is an extension of traditional information retrieval designed to include visual media.

The variety of knowledge required in visual information retrieval is large. Different research fields, which have involved separately, provide valuable contributions to this new research subject. Information retrieval, visual data modeling and representation, image/video analysis and processing, pattern recognition and computer vision, multimedia database organization, multidimensional indexing, psychological modeling of user behavior, man-machine interaction and data visualization, are the most important research fields that contribute to visual information retrieval.

http://lmb.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/research/isearch/research.en.html

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