MODULAR IMAGE MINING AND SEARCH

摘要

A system for modular image mining and search, comprising a plurality of image capture devices, a search engine, an indexing engine, a database, and user interface software. A plurality of image capture devices capture images and store them to a database. The indexing engine indexes images to create image data for each image with associated metadata and stores the information to the database. The interface software is used to request search queries via a search engine. The search engine accesses the image data to find images or parts of images that satisfy the search query.

主权项

1. A system for modular image mining and search, the system comprising:
a plurality of image capture devices stored and operating on a plurality of network-attached computer; an indexing engine software module operating on a first network-attached server computer; an image information database operating on the first network-attached server computer and adapted to receive and store image data and indices from the indexing engine software module; an interface software module operating on a second network-attached computer; a search engine software module operating on a second network-attached server computer; wherein the indexing engine software module indexes and categorizes image data captured by the plurality of image capture devices and stores image data and indices to the image information database; wherein the indexing and categorization of image data is performed using automated feature extraction at multiple spatial and temporal scales; and further wherein, the search engine software module receives search requests from users via the interface software module for searches of elements and features within an image using indices and image data of captured images.