スケッチから画像を探し出すretrievr
スケッチを元にflickrから同様の画像を探し出すretrievr。以前imgSeekで使われていた画像検索アルゴリズムをpythonによって実装した。
retrievr is based on research conducted by Chuck Jacobs, Adam Finkelstein and David Salesin at the University of Washington: Fast Multiresolution Image Querying (1995).
I first came across the algorithm when someone (I think Edd Dumbill) linked to imgSeek a couple of years back; imgSeek is a standalone image management application that incorporates that algorithm as well.
retrievr is a new implementation in pure Python (and a host of great libraries: Fredrik Lundh's PIL and aggdraw as well as numarray). The frontend has been created using Helma and Macromedia Flash.
