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This is a list of publicly available Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) engines, these image search engines look at the content (pixels) of their images in order to return results that match a particular query.
Commercial CBIR search engines[edit]
Name | Description | External Image Query | Metadata Query | Index Size (Estimate, Millions of Images) | Organization Type | License (Open/Closed) | PixolutionCBIR search engine, by pixolutionNoNo32MPrivate CompanyClosedJustVisualpure image-to-image searchyesyesBillionsStart-upAPIPicalikeCBIR engine for Mobile and eCommerceNoNo (additional filters can be added) Private CompanyClosedElastic VisionSmart image searcher with content-based clustering in a visual network.NoNo Private CompanyClosedGoogle Image SearchGoogle's CBIR system, note: does not work on all imagesYesYes Public CompanyClosedYandex Image SearchYandex CBIR systemYesYes10000MPublic CompanyClosedBaidu Image SearchBaidu's CBIR systemYesYes1000MPublic CompanyClosedID My PillAutomatic prescription pill identification (CBIR)YesNo Private CompanyOpen (via API)Imense Image Search PortalCBIR search engine, by Imense.NoYes3MPrivate CompanyClosedImprezzeo Image SearchCBIR search engine, by Imprezzeo.NoYes Private CompanyClosedIncogna Image SearchCBIR search engine, by Incogna Inc.NoYes100MPrivate CompanyClosedChic EngineVisual fashion search engine (CBIR)YesNo Private CompanyClosedMiPai similarity search engineOnline similarity search engineYesYes100MIndividualClosedPiximilarDemo engine, developed by Idee Inc.NoNo3MPrivate Company1ClosedEmporaProduct comparison & shopping using CBIR for product images. Previously known as PixstaNoYes0.5MPrivate CompanyClosedShopachuShopping & fashion CBIR engine, by Incogna Inc.NoYes1MPrivate CompanyClosedTinEyeCBIR site for finding variations of web images, by Idee Inc.YesNo1800MPrivate CompanyClosedOddEyeCBIR engine for finding product/catalogue/video frames, by Odd Concepts Inc.YesYes20MPrivate CompanyOpen (via API)TiltomoCBIR system using Flickr photosNoYes Private CompanyClosedeBay Image SearchImage Search for eBay FashionNoYes20MPublic CompanyClosedIMMENSELABCBIR search engine by KBKGROUP.YesNo10MPrivate CompanyClosedMacroglossa Visual SearchCBIR visual search engineYesNo Private CompanyClosedNoClonePC image search engine and classification based on contentYes (a set)No Private CompanyClosedQuerbieGeneral purpose CBIR visual search engineYesYes20MPrivate CompanyClosedCBIR research projects/demos/open source projects[edit]
Name | Description | External Image Query | Metadata Query | Index Size (Estimate, Millions of Images) | Organization Type | License (Open/Closed) | akiwiakiwi is a semi-automatic image keywording tool using CBIR techniques. It was developed by HTW Berlin / pixolution GmbHYesYes15MUniversityClosedALIPRDeveloped by Penn State University researchersYesYes UniversityClosedAnaktisiThis Web-Solution implements a new family of CBIR descriptors. These descriptors combine in one histogram color and texture information and are suitable for accurately retrieving images.YesNo0.225MUniversityOpenBRISCBRISC is a recursive acronym for BRISC Really IS Cool, and is (conveniently enough) also an anagram of Content-Based Image Retrieval System.YesNo UniversityGPLdigiKamExtensive photo management application build on top of KDE libraries. It provides, besides many other features, reverse searches for images in the local collection, detection of duplicates and a fuzzy search by drawings.YesYesDesktop-basedKDEGPLCaliph & EmirCreation and Retrieval of images based on MPEG-7.YesNoDesktop-basedUniversityGPLFIREOpen source query by visual example CBIR system. Developed at RWTH Aachen University.FIRE is a research system developed with extensibility in mind and can easily be combined with textual information retrieval systems.NoNo UniversityOpenGNU Image Finding ToolQuery by example image search system.YesNoDesktop-basedGNUGPLISSBPSimilar Image Search by Imense plugin for Adobe Bridge, free beta.YesYesfree-beta limited to 4k imagesPrivate CompanyClosedimg(Rummager)Image retrieval Engine (Freeware Application).YesNoDesktop-basedIndividualClosedimgSeekphoto collection manager and viewer with content-based search and many other features.YesNo IndividualGPLIKONAGeneric CBIR system - INRIA - IMEDIAYesYes UniversityClosedIOSBImage retrieval demonstration software of Fraunhofer IOSB (Germany)YesNoDesktop-basedResearch InstituteClosedLIREJava GPL library for content based image retrieval based on Lucene including multiple low level global and local features and different indexing strategies including bag of visual words and hashing.YesYes UniversityGPLLucignoloImage similarity search engine using only the native full-text search engine Lucene.YesYes106MResearch InstituteClosedMIFileImage similarity search engine based on MI File (Metric Inverted File) developed at ISTI-CNR.Source code of the MI File.NoNo106MResearch InstituteOpenMUVISCBIR System at TUT- Tampere University of Technology.YesNoDesktop-basedUniversityClosedPastecC++ LGPL index and search engine for near-duplicate image retrieval that uses bag of visual words with ORB features.YesYes Private companyLGPLPIRIACBIR tool developed at CEA-LIST, LVIC (Vision and Content Engineering Laboratory).YesYes130MUniversityClosedPicsLikeThatImage search using visual similarity search and sorting combined with a recommender system. (Cooperation of pixolution GmbH, fotolia and HTW Berlin)NoNo12MUniversityClosedPixcavatorSimilar image search based on topological image analysisYesNoDesktop-basedPrivate companyClosedQuickLookVisual information retrieval system with relevance feedbackNoYes UniversityClosedRETINInteractive images retrieval system - CNRS - ETIS Lab., MIDI TeamNoNo UniversityClosedRetrievrSearch and explore in a selection of Flickr images by drawing a rough sketch or uploading an image.NoNo UniversityClosedSIMBAdemo of system by the Albert-Ludwigs-Universitet Freiburg (Germany) Inst. for Pattern Recognition and Image ProcessingYesNo0.002MUniversityClosedTagPropThe demonstration of image annotation tool TagProp in ICCV2009 for image set: Corel 5k ESP Game IAPR TC-12 and MIR Flickr.NoYes InstituteClosedVIRaLVisual Image Retrieval and Localization: A visual search engine that, given a query image, retrieves photos depicting the same object or scene under varying viewpoint or lighting conditions. Using Flickr photos of urban scenes, it automatically estimates where a picture is taken, suggests tags, identifies known landmarks or points of interest, and links to relevant Wikipedia articles. It currently supports 39 cities around the world.YesYes2.221MUniversityClosedWindsurfA general framework for efficiently processing content-based image queries with particular emphasis to the region-based paradigm; it provides an environment where different alternatives of the paradigm can be implemented, allowing such implementations to be compared on a fair basis, from the points of view of both effectiveness and efficiency.YesNo UniversityOpen but not freePIBEAn adaptive image browsing system that provides users with an intuitive, easy-to-use, structured view of an image collection and complements it with ideas from the field of adaptable content-based similarity search. A hierarchical view of images (the Browsing Tree) that can be customized according to user preferences is provided.YesNo UniversityClosedSHIATSUA novel system for automatic video tagging which is based on shot boundaries detection and hierarchical annotation processes. The tagging phase assigns semantic concepts to both shot sequences and whole videos, by exploiting visual features extracted from key frames.YesYes UniversityClosed![]()
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