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A Fast Image-Gathering System on the World-Wide Web Using a PC Cluster

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Web Intelligence: Research and Development (WI 2001)

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Thanks to the recent explosive progress of WWW (World-Wide Web), we can easily access a large number of images from WWW. There are, however, no established methods to make use of WWW as a large image database. In this paper, we describe an automatic imagegathering system from WWW, in which we use both keywords and image features. By exploiting some existing keyword-based search engines and selecting images by their image features, our system obtains, with high accuracy, images that are strongly related to query keywords. This system has been implemented on a parallel PC cluster, which enables us to gather more than one hundred images from WWW in about one minute.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, The University of Electro-Communications, 1-5-1 Chofugaoka, Chofu-shi, Tokyo, 182-8585, JAPAN

    Keiji Yanai, Masaya Shindo & Kohei Noshita

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  1. Department of Systems and Information Engineering, Maebashi Institute of Technology, 460-1 Kamisadori-Cho, Maebashi-City, 371-0816, Japan

    Ning Zhong

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, S4S 0A2

    Yiju Yao

  3. Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, 224 Waterloo Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

    Jiming Liu

  4. Department of Information and Computer Science, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Okubo Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo, 169, Japan

    Setsuo Ohsuga

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Yanai, K., Shindo, M., Noshita, K. (2001). A Fast Image-Gathering System on the World-Wide Web Using a PC Cluster. In: Zhong, N., Yao, Y., Liu, J., Ohsuga, S. (eds) Web Intelligence: Research and Development. WI 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2198. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45490-X_38

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