Yes, notice the flowers are all a medium-dark crimson red. There are a
bunch of these image-indexing & search technologies, but there is no (to
my knowledge) "finished technology"- it's very much an area of research.
If you want to search the word 'flower' and index data that can find
blobs of red, that might be easy with public tools. But there are many
hard problems.
Lance
Stephen Weiss wrote:
There's a project out there called LIRE (I heard about it on this list) that's
supposed to create a lucene-based CIBR index for images. I wonder if this
could be integrated with Solr? Personally I don't really care about the flower
part, I'm more worried about searching whether the flower is red... we have
good object keywording but not good color keywording - and color is so much
more subjective too, red can mean a lot of things. I'm already working on
testing it separately but it sure would be more useful if the scoring could be
integrated with the rest of the search index.
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Steve
On Sep 15, 2010, at 11:56 PM, Shashi Kant wrote:
I'm sure there's some post doctoral types who could get a graphic shape
analyzer, color analyzer, to at least say it's a flower.
However, even Google would have to build new datacenters to have the horsepower
to do that kind of graphic processing.
Not necessarily true. Like.com - which incidentally got acquired by
Google recently - built a true visual search technology and applied it
on a large scale.
