img(Anaktisi) Image Search Engine
Since Blobworld was down I was hoping for a new online CBIR system to show in lectures. Last week I received word about the img(Anaktisi) image search engine from Savvas Chatzichristofis. This search...
View ArticleDEXA-Workshop on Text-Based Information Retrieval (TIR’10)
TIR’10 – 7th International Workshop on Text-Based Information Retrieval In conjunction with the DEXA 2010 21st International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications Bilbao, Spain, August...
View ArticleFinal Call for Papers: Special Issue on Searching Speech
ACM Transactions on Information Systems is soliciting contributions to a special issue on the topic of “Searching Speech”. The special issue will be devoted to algorithms and systems that use speech...
View ArticleLire and Lire Demo v 0.9 released
I just released Lire and Lire Demo in version 0.9 on sourceforge.net. Basically it’s the alpha version with additional speed and stability enhancements for bag of visual words (BoVW) indexing. While...
View ArticleLire 0.9.3 released
I just uploaded Lire 0.9.3 to the all new Google Code page. This is the first version with full support for Lucene 4.0. Run time and memory performance are comparable to the version using Lucene 3.6....
View ArticleLarge image data sets with LIRE – some new numbers
People lately asked whether LIRE can do more than linear search and I always answered: Yes, it should … but you know I never tried. But: Finally I came around to index the MIR-FLICKR data set and some...
View ArticlePyramid Histogram of Oriented Gradients (PHOG) implemented in LIRE
Yesterday I checked in the latest LIRE revision featuring the PHOG descriptor. I basically goes along image edge lines (using the Canny Edge Detector) and makes a fuzzy histogram of gradient...
View ArticleDocker Image for LireSolr
We all know that setting up a server application is a huge pain in the ass, but there’s hope: Docker is an open source project for packaging those things and making them runnable within containers....
View ArticleGradle as Build System for LIRE & LireSolr
In the process of updating to Lucene version 6.3.0 we switched the main build system to Gradle. The source code is now better organized, following the structure of Maven with all the source divided...
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