Image Retrieval - Search Methods

Search Methods

Image search is a specialized data search used to find images. To search for images, a user may provide query terms such as keyword, image file/link, or click on some image, and the system will return images "similar" to the query. The similarity used for search criteria could be meta tags, color distribution in images, region/shape attributes, etc.

• Image meta search - search of images based on associated metadata such as keywords, text, etc.
• Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) – the application of computer vision to the image retrieval. CBIR aims at avoiding the use of textual descriptions and instead retrieves images based on similarities in their contents (textures, colors, shapes etc.) to a user-supplied query image or user-specified image features.
  • List of CBIR Engines - list of engines which search for images based image visual content such as color, texture, shape/object, etc.