QbS: Query by Sketching (Finished)

The goal of the QbS project is to combine CBIR and novel interactive paper interfaces to address these problems by providing a naturalistic interface that will significantly lower the barriers for content-based image retrieval in a variety of applications. Users will be able to sketch their query on paper through a combination of drawing similar shapes, recognised symbols, annotations and command gestures. The interactive paper interface to CBIR will also allow the user to dynamically highlight regions of interest. Since the user-defined region selection is much more flexible than automatic segmentation-based region detection, it is assumed to better match the application-specific needs of CBIR users.

Start / End Dates

01.10.2007 - 30.09.2009

Partners

Prof. Moira Norrie, ETH Zürich (globis Group Website)

Funding Agencies

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)

Staff

Research Topics

Publications

2012
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2007