Visual information retrieval from large distributed online repositories
Shih‐Fu Chang, John R. Smith, Mandis Beigi, Ana B. Benitez · Communications of the ACM · 1997
Digital images and video are becoming an integral part of human communication.The ease of creating and capturing digital imagery has enabled its proliferation, making our interaction with online information sources largely visual.We increasingly use visual content to express ideas, report news, and educate and entertain each other.But how can we search for visual information?v isual i nformat ion m anage me n t v Try WebSEEk, an Internet search system that integrates textual and visual features for categorizing images and videos, and MetaSEEk, a meta-search system that links to various visual search systems.