Title
Query By Image And Video Content - The Qbic System
Abstract
Advances in scanning, networking, compression and video technology-and the proliferation of multimedia computers-have led to the generation of large on-line collections of images and videos. These collections have created a need for new methods to locate specific images or video clips. The Query by Image Content (QBIC) project is studying methods to extend and complement text-based retrievals by querying and retrieving images and videos by content.Queries can be performed using attributes such as colors, textures, shapes, and object position. Video-specific queries include those on camera motion parameters like zoom, pan, and object motion.The project has resulted in a prototype system with two major steps: database population and query. In population, methods identify objects in still images, segment videos into short sequences called shots, and compute features describing color, texture, shape, position, or motion information. In database query, images and shots can be retrieved by example (''Show me images similar to this image'') or by selecting properties from pickers such as a color wheel, a sketched shape, a list of camera motions, or a combination of these.Key QBIC technical issues include a visual query language and a graphical user interface that lets users form a query by painting, sketching, or selecting graphical elements. Key also are indexing techniques for high-dimensional features describing image and video content, automatic segmentation techniques for images (to identify interesting objects), and videos (to identify shots and interesting moving and static objects), and similarity retrieval (to match human perception).QBIC technology has moved into the Ultimedia and Digital Library commercial IBM products.
Year
DOI
Venue
1995
10.1109/2.410146
COMPUTER
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
28
9
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0018-9162
194
37.52
References 
Authors
7
12
Search Limit
100194
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Myron Flickner1913179.69
Harpreet S. Sawhney22075372.35
Wayne Niblack31031191.87
Jonathan Ashley431859.08
qian huang519437.52
Byron Dom62600825.93
monika gorkani719437.52
jim hafher819437.52
denis lee919437.52
dragutin petkovie1019437.52
David Steele1124449.50
Peter Yanker1219637.96