Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index GIFT is a content based image retrieval system. The GNU Image Finding Tool is a Content Based Image Retrieval System (CBIRS). You can do Query By Example on images, giving you the opportunity to improve query results by relevance feedback. The program relies entirely on the content of the images to process queries, so you needn't annotate images before querying the collection. It comes with a tool which lets you index whole directory trees containing images in one go. You then can use the GIFT server and its client, SnakeCharmer (separate package), to browse your own image collections. The GIFT is an open framework for content-based image retrieval. We explicitly have taken into account the possibility of adding new ways of querying to the framework. Our communication protocol for client-server communication, MRML, is XML based and fully documented (http://www.mrml.net). This aims at promoting code reuse among researchers and application developers. Inquiries about APIs and how to integrate new clients/servers into the framework are welcome (send questions to [1] or the maintainer [3]). The current version of the GIFT can be seen in action at [1] The latest version can be found and downloaded at [2] The GIFT (ex Viper) is the result of a research effort at the Vision Group at the CUI (computer science center) of the University of Geneva (see [1]). This cutting-edge research has been the subject of several publications and conference talks. Details can be found at [1]. External Links GIFT Home Page GNU home page This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.