Image Retrieval tools : GNU Image Finding Tool(GIFT), Flexible Image Retrieval Engine(FIRE), Lucene Image Retrieval (LIRE) all are open source

1. Image Retrieval
2012BCS025 Pratik Sakhare
2013BIT039 Sujata Regoti
2010BCS021 Abrar Soudagar

2. Image Retrieval
Tools
➔GIFT
➔FIRE
➔LIRE

3. GNU Image Finding Tool
➔ The GIFT (the GNU Image-Finding Tool) is a Content Based Image
Retrieval System (CBIRS). It was developed Computer Vision Group
of University of Geneva.
➔ It enables you to do Query By Pictorial Examples, giving you the
opportunity to improve query results by relevance feedback. For
processing your queries the program relies entirely on the content of
the images, freeing you from the need to annotate all images before
querying the collection.
➔ The GIFT is an open framework.
➔ The GIFT comes with a tool which lets you index whole directory

4. GIFT..
➔ Communication protocol for client-server communication, MRML, is XML based and fully
documented (http://www.mrml.net)
➔ The purpose of MRML is to separate the client part from the server part of CBIR systems and to
create a standard method for communication between different CIBR systems.
➔ GIFT uses QBPE (Qurey By Pictorial Example) with user relevance feedback.
➔ Although GIFT is slow while indexing and testing phases. Early experiments showed results being
processed and given in days, which was not acceptable hence PicSOM was formulated.

5. GIFT Framework
MRML : XML based communication protocol
Ref : http://slideplayer.com/slide/9340612/
(Multimedia
Retrieval
Markup
Language)

6. Viper: GIFT plugin

7. Flexible Image Retrieval Engine
➔It is a content-based image retrieval system developed by Thomas
Deselaers with many other of Human Language Technology and Pattern
Recognition Group of RWTH Aachen University.
➔The main aim of FIRE is to investigate different image descriptors and
evaluate their performance.
➔ FIRE was developed in C++ and Python and is meant to be easily
extensible.

8. FIRE Online Fire Image Query : http://demo.iupr.org/cgi-bin/fire-parts.cgi

9. Search By Part

10. Lucene Image Retrieval ( LIRE )
➔LIRE is a Java library that provides a simple way to retrieve images and
photos based on color and texture characteristics.
➔LIRE creates a Lucene index of image features for content based image
retrieval (CBIR)
➔Easy to use methods for searching the index and result browsing are
provided.
➔Try Web Demo : http://demo-itec.uni-klu.ac.at/liredemo/

11. LIRE Features
OPEN SOURCE
POWERFUL PERFORMANCE
SOLR PLUGIN
RESEARCH DRIVEN

12. LIRE DEMO
It provides a simple GUI
interface for
➔ Indexing photos
➔ Searching photos
➔ Browsing the created
index

13. Query Firing
Query Image

14. References
GIFT : https://www.gnu.org/software/gift/
FIRE : http://thomas.deselaers.de/fire/
LIRE : http://www.lire-project.net/

15. Thank you