With the explosive growth of the World Wide Web, the public is gaining access to massive
amounts of information. However, locating needed and relevant information remains a …

An intelligent electronic appliance preferably includes a user interface, data input and/or
output port, and an intelligent processor. A preferred embodiment comprises a set top box …

In many areas of commerce, government, academia, and hospitals, large collections of
digital images are being created. Many of these collections are the product of digitizing …

A method and apparatus for providing a user interface for refining a query applied to a
database of images, where a Query Result Visualization Environment allows the user to …

Advanced Multimedia Oriented Retrieval Engine (AMORE)[2] is a World-Wide Web image
retrieval engine integrating several techniques to facilitate effective retrieval of images from …

The amount of audiovisual information available in digital format has grown exponentially in
recent years. Gigabytes of new images, audio and video clips are generated and stored …

Mining the World Wide Web: An Information Search Approach explores the concepts and
techniques of Web mining, a promising and rapidly growing field of computer science …

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This paper attempts to discuss the evolution of the retrieval approaches focusing on
development, challenges and future direction of the image retrieval. It highlights both the …

(57) ABSTRACT A method and apparatus for classifying and querying a database of
images, in which the images in the database are classified using primary objects as a …