NAME¶
gnuift — GNU Image Finding Tool - index and search images by content
DESCRIPTION¶
This manual page documents briefly the
gnuift and
gift-* commands.
This manual page was written for the
Debian distribution because the
original program does not have a manual page.
The GIFT (the GNU Image-Finding Tool) is a Content Based Image Retrieval System
(CBIRS). It enables you to do Query By Example on images, giving you the
opportunity to improve query results by relevance feedback. For processing
your queries the program relies entirely on the content of the images, freeing
you from the need to annotate all images before querying the collection.
The GIFT comes with a tool which lets you index whole directory trees containing
images in one go. You then can use the GIFT server and its client, to browse
your own image collections.
The GIFT is an open framework for content-based image retrieval. We explicitly
have taken into account the possibility of adding new ways of querying to the
framework. Our communication protocol for client-server communication, MRML,
is XML based and fully documented (
http://www.mrml.net). This aims at
promoting code reuse among researchers and application developers.
The current version of the GIFT can be seen in action at
http://viper.unige.ch/demo/
The GIFT (ex Viper) is the result of a research effort at the Vision Group at
the CUI (computer science center) of the University of Geneva (see
http://vision.unige.ch/). This cutting-edge research has been the subject of
several publications and conference talks. Details can be found at
http://viper.unige.ch/.
SEE ALSO¶
The gnuift-doc package contains reference manuals, configuration hints and
further information.
AUTHOR¶
This manual page was written by Robert Jordens jordens@debian.org for the
Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to
copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU
General Public License, Version 2. On Debian systems, the full text of this
license can be found in the file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.