shenli at slangwho.com
2011-Jan-31 20:24 UTC
[Xapian-devel] Does xapian support image search?
Currenly we have our Xapian-based search engine search photos from our collection only with the image's name and tags. Thus, I'm wondering that except for these text contents attached to the image, whether Xapian can actually support any kind of image search? Thanks for any suggestion! Best, Shen DISCLAIMER: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this email. If you have received this email in error please notify the Slangwho legal team at legal [at] slangwho.com and delete this email from your system. Email transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of email transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version.
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 03:24:19PM -0500, shenli at slangwho.com wrote:> Currenly we have our Xapian-based search engine search photos from our > collection only with the image's name and tags. Thus, I'm wondering > that except for these text contents attached to the image, whether > Xapian can actually support any kind of image search?If you can implement what you want by generating terms and matching them then you can use Xapian for it. So for images you could generate terms using feature extraction, colour analysis, etc. There's a branch in SVN called "imgseek" with some experimental work on: http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/ActiveBranches Cheers, Olly