ExSight-Multimedia information retrieval system

摘要

This papr proposes a database centric approach to facilitate flexible image retrieval based on the indexing of component subimages (or simply objects) and impression words. The required techniques we proposed for the approach are described. Key points in this approach are (1) automatic image data analysis, especially automatic object extraction, on natural photographs (2) multiple reference object retrieval and (3) high performance data access mechanisms. As a prototype system which embodies these ideas, ExSight is presented with a simple evaluation result using this system.