CBIR (Re: Jpeg and Exif Plugin)

[Andrzej Bialecki <ab...@getopt.org>]

Jérôme Charron wrote:
>> What do you thing about a plug-in for indexing MetaData Exif on Jpeg ?
>> Do you thing it's a good idea  ?
>>     
>
> I think it makes sense.
> For a general search engine it will allow to search on image comments for
> instance.
> For an image search engine it will allow to search on technical metadata
> (exposure time, date, ...)
> But what's about images without comments for instance? How to retrieve them
> in a general search engine?
> The more Nutch have plugins the more it will be usefull fore many purpose
> and so for a wide variety of users.
> +1
>   

I agree, it would be a useful addition.

Also, I think it would be great if someone familiar with CBIR could 
contribute a plugin for indexing & searching for images by their 
fingerprints - there are several known techniques for doing this (look 
at imgSeek for inspiration). Nutch would require only minimal changes to 
support a suitable front-end.



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