Retrieval by sketch
Search the internet by sketching the image you want to retrieve and get accurate results in less than a second!
Overview
Image search in the internet is usually done by entering words and phrases In this work images are searched by the actual content. A hand-drawn sketch is used to retrieve images which contain similar shapes. As the hand-drawn sketch is drawn, novel shape-based features are calculated and compared to a database of images. In an efficient retrieval step, you can search hundreds of images (and due to the scalability potentially millions of images) and retrieve an image which exactly looks like your sketch in less than a second! OpenLabNight Demo 2010 – Please contact me for questions using hayko(at)icg.tugraz.at.Screenshots
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The demo is currently implemented in Matlab and runs live on a 2 Ghz single CPU in 50 milliseconds per search. This section is still under construction.Publications
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Image retrieval by shape-focused sketching of objects
Hayko Riemenschneider, Michael Donoser and Horst Bischof
Proceedings of Computer Vision Winter Workshop (CVWW), 2011 -
Using Partial Edge Contour Matches for Efficient Object Category Localization (Paper as PDF)
Hayko Riemenschneider, Michael Donoser and Horst Bischof
Proceedings of European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2010 -
Efficient Partial Shape Matching of Outer Contours (Paper as PDF)
Michael Donoser, Hayko Riemenschneider and Horst Bischof
Proceedings of Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2009
