AMORE: A World Wide Web image retrieval engine

  • Authors:
  • Sougata Mukherjea;Kyoji Hirata;Yoshinori Hara

  • Affiliations:
  • C&C Research Laboratories, NEC USA Inc., 110 Rio Robles, San Jose, CA 95134, USA E-mail: {sougata,hirata,hara}@ccrl.sj.nec.com;C&C Research Laboratories, NEC USA Inc., 110 Rio Robles, San Jose, CA 95134, USA E-mail: {sougata,hirata,hara}@ccrl.sj.nec.com;C&C Research Laboratories, NEC USA Inc., 110 Rio Robles, San Jose, CA 95134, USA E-mail: {sougata,hirata,hara}@ccrl.sj.nec.com

  • Venue:
  • World Wide Web
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Search engines are useful because they allow the user to find information of interest from the World Wide Web. However, most of the popular search engines today are textual; they do not allow the user to find images from the Web. This paper describes AMORE, a Web search engine that allows the user to retrieve images from the Web by specifying relevant keywords or a similar image. Text and image search can also be combined. Moreover, we have developed a Query Result Visualization Environment that allows the organization of the results if many images are retrieved. In this paper we present AMORE’s user interface and explain the technique for retrieving images visually similar to a user specified image. The method of automatically assigning relevant keywords to the images is then explained. Finally, the architecture of the system as well as some interesting observations of our experiences with AMORE are discussed.