Query by Image and Video Content: The QBIC System

Myron Flickner, Harpreet Sawhney, Wayne Niblack, Jonathan Ashley, Qian Huang, Byron Dom, Monika Gorkani, Jim Hafner, Denis Lee, Dragutin Petkovic, David Steele and Peter Yanker,     IBM Almaden Research Center

QBIC* lets users find pictorial information in large image and video databases based on color, shape, texture, and sketches. QBIC technology is part of several IBM products.

Picture yourself as a fashion designer needing images of fabrics with a particular mixture of colors, a museum cataloger looking for artifacts of a particular shape and textured pattern, or a movie producer needing a video clip of a red car-like object moving from right to left with the camera zooming. How do ...

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