NAME

       gnuift — GNU Image Finding Tool - index and search images by content

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the gnuift and gift-*       commands.

       This  manual  page  was  written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a
       manual page.

       The GIFT (the GNU Image-Finding Tool) is a Content Based Image Retrieval System (CBIRS). It  enables  you
       to  do  Query  By  Example  on  images,  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  comes  with a tool which lets you index whole directory trees containing images in one go. You
       then can use the GIFT server and its client, to browse your own image collections.

       The GIFT is an open framework for content-based image retrieval. We explicitly have  taken  into  account
       the  possibility  of adding new ways of querying to the framework. Our communication protocol for client-
       server communication, MRML, is XML  based  and  fully  documented  (http://www.mrml.net).  This  aims  at
       promoting code reuse among researchers and application developers.

       The current version of the GIFT can be seen in action at http://viper.unige.ch/demo/

       The  GIFT  (ex Viper) is the result of a research effort at the Vision Group at the CUI (computer science
       center) of the University of Geneva (see http://vision.unige.ch/). This cutting-edge  research  has  been
       the subject of several publications and conference talks. Details can be found at http://viper.unige.ch/.

SEE ALSO

       The gnuift-doc package contains reference manuals, configuration hints and further information.

AUTHOR

       This  manual page was written by Robert Jordens jordens@debian.org for the Debian system (but may be used
       by others).  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the
       GNU  General  Public License, Version 2. On Debian systems, the full text of this license can be found in
       the file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.

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