Re: Color search for images

2010-09-18 Thread Govind Kanshi
Not exactly sure how one would put context of what object is more dominant than other. Think of landscape with snow, green mountains and set of flowers of varied colors including a rose On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Shashi Kant wrote: > > > > What I am envisioning (at least to start) is h

Re: Color search for images

2010-09-17 Thread Shashi Kant
> > What I am envisioning (at least to start) is have all this add two fields in > the index.  One would be for color information for the color similarity > search.  The other would be a simple multivalued text field that we put > keywords into based on what OpenCV can detect about the image.  If i

Re: Color search for images

2010-09-16 Thread Dennis Gearon
equired an explanation.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magenta Dennis Gearon Signature Warning EARTH has a Right To Life, otherwise we all die. Read 'Hot, Flat, and Crowded' Laugh at http://www.yert.com/film.php --- On Thu, 9/16/10, Shawn Heisey wrote: > From: Shawn Hei

Re: Color search for images

2010-09-16 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 9/16/2010 7:45 AM, Shashi Kant wrote: Lire is a nascent effort and based on a cursory overview a while back, IMHO was an over-simplified version of what a CBIR engine should be. They use CEDD (color& edge descriptors). Wouldn't work for the kind of applications I am working on - which needs

Re: Color search for images

2010-09-16 Thread Dennis Gearon
From: Shashi Kant > Subject: Re: Color search for images > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Date: Thursday, September 16, 2010, 6:36 AM > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 3:21 AM, > Lance Norskog > wrote: > > Yes, notice the flowers are all a medium-dark crimson > red. There are

Re: Color search for images

2010-09-16 Thread Dennis Gearon
rning EARTH has a Right To Life, otherwise we all die. Read 'Hot, Flat, and Crowded' Laugh at http://www.yert.com/film.php --- On Wed, 9/15/10, Shashi Kant wrote: > From: Shashi Kant > Subject: Re: Color search for images > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Da

Re: Color search for images

2010-09-16 Thread Shashi Kant
> Lire looks promising, but how hard is it to integrate the content-based > search into Solr as opposed to Lucene?  I myself am not a Java developer.  I > have access to people who are, but their time is scarce. > Lire is a nascent effort and based on a cursory overview a while back, IMHO was an

Re: Color search for images

2010-09-16 Thread Shashi Kant
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 3:21 AM, Lance Norskog wrote: > 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 sear

Re: Color search for images

2010-09-16 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 9/15/2010 10:50 AM, Shashi Kant wrote: Shawn, I have done some research into this, machine-vision especially on a large scale is a hard problem, not to be entered into lightly. I would recommend starting with OpenCV - a comprehensive toolkit for extracting various features such as Color, Edge

Re: Color search for images

2010-09-16 Thread Lance Norskog
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

Re: Color search for images

2010-09-16 Thread Li Li
do you mean content based image retrieval or just search images by tag? if the former, you can try LIRE 2010/9/15 Shawn Heisey : >  My index consists of metadata for a collection of 45 million objects, most > of which are digital images.  The executives have fallen in love with > Google's color im

Re: Color search for images

2010-09-15 Thread Stephen Weiss
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 r

Re: Color search for images

2010-09-15 Thread Shashi Kant
> 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 - whi

Re: Color search for images

2010-09-15 Thread Dennis Gearon
all die. Read 'Hot, Flat, and Crowded' Laugh at http://www.yert.com/film.php --- On Wed, 9/15/10, Ken Krugler wrote: > From: Ken Krugler > Subject: Re: Color search for images > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Date: Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 9:41 AM > > On

Re: Color search for images

2010-09-15 Thread Shashi Kant
> > On a related note, I'm curious if anyone has run across a good set of > algorithms (or hopefully a library) for doing naive image > classification. I'm looking for something that can classify images > into something similar to the broad categories that Google image > search has (Face, Photo, Cl

Re: Color search for images

2010-09-15 Thread Shashi Kant
Shawn, I have done some research into this, machine-vision especially on a large scale is a hard problem, not to be entered into lightly. I would recommend starting with OpenCV - a comprehensive toolkit for extracting various features such as Color, Edge etc from images. Also there is a project LIR

Re: Color search for images

2010-09-15 Thread Paul Dlug
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Ken Krugler wrote: > > On Sep 15, 2010, at 7:59am, Shawn Heisey wrote: > >> My index consists of metadata for a collection of 45 million objects, most >> of which are digital images.  The executives have fallen in love with >> Google's color image search.  Here's

Re: Color search for images

2010-09-15 Thread Ken Krugler
On Sep 15, 2010, at 7:59am, Shawn Heisey wrote: My index consists of metadata for a collection of 45 million objects, most of which are digital images. The executives have fallen in love with Google's color image search. Here's a search for "flower" with a red color filter: http://www.

Color search for images

2010-09-15 Thread Shawn Heisey
My index consists of metadata for a collection of 45 million objects, most of which are digital images. The executives have fallen in love with Google's color image search. Here's a search for "flower" with a red color filter: http://www.google.com/images?q=flower&tbs=isch:1,ic:specific,isc