| 摘要 |
Disclosed is an image search apparatus capable of efficiently and conveniently searching a large number of images accumulated in a storage device such as HDD for an image desired by the user. This image search apparatus comprises a storage device for accumulating a plurality of images to be searched; a feature acquisition unit for at least one component from each of a plurality of images to be searched, the at least one component being common to the plurality of images to be searched, and for deriving a feature which characterizes each of the images to be searched based on the at least one component; a network generator for calculating similarity measures among the plurality of images to be searched using the feature, and associating images that have the similarity measures within a predetermined range, with one another through links; and an image search unit for calculating a display link distance between two images to be searched that are associated with each other through N links (where N is an integer equal to or larger than one), so as to set the display link distance between the two images to N, and for searching the plurality of images.
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