1. Problem Query image by content in an image database

2. Motivation Image databases are becoming more and more common and larger in several distinct application domains, such as: multimedia search engines, digital libraries, art, medical, geographic, criminal investigation. There is a need to develop efficient tools for searching (indexing) and browsing the multimedia data by content.

3. Plan of attack n Ideas –extract features from the query image (color, texture, shape, position, regions) –create a database, indexing the pictures –compare the query image to images from database, releaving similarities n Tools –Matlab, Jasc Photoshop, Java, DBMS n Things to learn –Image analysis, Image retrieval, comparing features, clusterizing images (SOM), Java, SQL

4. Schedule n Poster - 1st October 2003 n Paper - 1st November 2003 n Software implementation starts on 1st October 2003 n Team meetings - twice a week, on Tuesdays and Saturdays n 3 subgroups: research, implementation and documentation

5. Results n Good knowledge in image analysis applied in image retrieval, query by content n Algorithms (Matlab, Java) for query-by- image-content field n Try to implement these algorithms in Java application