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Retrievr
« on: October 18, 2006, 01:45:45 PM »
Text-powered search is so fundamental to life online that alternatives seem like far-flung fantasy.
Programmer Christian Langreiter, a 27-year-old Austrian, was hired by a European software company to make one alternative real. His creation: Retrievr, a search engine for images based entirely on visual input.
Retrievr sifts through photographs stored in Yahoo's Flickr database by using mouse-powered doodles as its search criteria.

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Re: Retrievr
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2006, 02:16:46 PM »
That looks like cool stuff.

It's kind of like an idea I had years ago. Mine was an images search engine like googles (or alta-vista's), however you would have selected an image, and chose 'find like this'

 

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Re: Retrievr
« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2006, 04:01:47 PM »
It is pattern recognition, and is not really new. Look out for future advances in radiology and other medical imaging, such as computer assisted diagnosis in mammography.

http://fuzzy.fzk.de/~rainer/new/work/node7.html

And thoracic cross-sectional imaging:

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/horwood01computerassisted.html

I must add that the pattern recognition software on airport X-ray units must be fairly mature by now, and must work on the same principles as computer assisted diagnosis.
 

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Re: Retrievr
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2006, 05:12:49 PM »
Nice idea, it certainly makes searching for images a bit easier, although I can guess what most people have been drawing !

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