Re: Color search for images

2010-09-18 Thread Govind Kanshi
> detects faces, we would put "face" into this field. Other things that it > > can detect would result in other keywords. > > > > For the color search, I have a few inter-related hurdles. I've got to > > figure out what form the color data actually takes a

Re: Color search for images

2010-09-17 Thread Shashi Kant
the image.  If it > detects faces, we would put "face" into this field.  Other things that it > can detect would result in other keywords. > > For the color search, I have a few inter-related hurdles.  I've got to > figure out what form the color data actually takes an

Re: Color search for images

2010-09-16 Thread Dennis Gearon
equired an explanation.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magenta Dennis Gearon Signature Warning EARTH has a Right To Life, otherwise we all die. Read 'Hot, Flat, and Crowded' Laugh at http://www.yert.com/film.php --- On Thu, 9/16/10, Shawn Heisey wrote: > From: Shawn Hei

Re: Color search for images

2010-09-16 Thread Shawn Heisey
her things that it can detect would result in other keywords. For the color search, I have a few inter-related hurdles. I've got to figure out what form the color data actually takes and how to represent it in Solr. I need Java code for Solr that can take an input color value and find simila

Re: Color search for images

2010-09-16 Thread Dennis Gearon
From: Shashi Kant > Subject: Re: Color search for images > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Date: Thursday, September 16, 2010, 6:36 AM > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 3:21 AM, > Lance Norskog > wrote: > > Yes, notice the flowers are all a medium-dark crimson > red. There are

Re: Color search for images

2010-09-16 Thread Dennis Gearon
rning EARTH has a Right To Life, otherwise we all die. Read 'Hot, Flat, and Crowded' Laugh at http://www.yert.com/film.php --- On Wed, 9/15/10, Shashi Kant wrote: > From: Shashi Kant > Subject: Re: Color search for images > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Da

Re: Color search for images

2010-09-16 Thread Shashi Kant
> Lire looks promising, but how hard is it to integrate the content-based > search into Solr as opposed to Lucene?  I myself am not a Java developer.  I > have access to people who are, but their time is scarce. > Lire is a nascent effort and based on a cursory overview a while back, IMHO was an

Re: Color search for images

2010-09-16 Thread Shashi Kant
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 3:21 AM, Lance Norskog wrote: > Yes, notice the flowers are all a medium-dark crimson red. There are a bunch > of these image-indexing & search technologies, but there is no (to my > knowledge) "finished technology"- it's very much an area of research. If you > want to sear

Re: Color search for images

2010-09-16 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 9/15/2010 10:50 AM, Shashi Kant wrote: Shawn, I have done some research into this, machine-vision especially on a large scale is a hard problem, not to be entered into lightly. I would recommend starting with OpenCV - a comprehensive toolkit for extracting various features such as Color, Edge

Re: Color search for images

2010-09-16 Thread Lance Norskog
Yes, notice the flowers are all a medium-dark crimson red. There are a bunch of these image-indexing & search technologies, but there is no (to my knowledge) "finished technology"- it's very much an area of research. If you want to search the word 'flower' and index data that can find blobs of

Re: Color search for images

2010-09-16 Thread Li Li
do you mean content based image retrieval or just search images by tag? if the former, you can try LIRE 2010/9/15 Shawn Heisey : >  My index consists of metadata for a collection of 45 million objects, most > of which are digital images.  The executives have fallen in love with > Google's color im

Re: Color search for images

2010-09-15 Thread Stephen Weiss
There's a project out there called LIRE (I heard about it on this list) that's supposed to create a lucene-based CIBR index for images. I wonder if this could be integrated with Solr? Personally I don't really care about the flower part, I'm more worried about searching whether the flower is r

Re: Color search for images

2010-09-15 Thread Shashi Kant
> I'm sure there's some post doctoral types who could get a graphic shape > analyzer, color analyzer, to at least say it's a flower. > > However, even Google would have to build new datacenters to have the > horsepower to do that kind of graphic processing. > Not necessarily true. Like.com - whi

Re: Color search for images

2010-09-15 Thread Dennis Gearon
all die. Read 'Hot, Flat, and Crowded' Laugh at http://www.yert.com/film.php --- On Wed, 9/15/10, Ken Krugler wrote: > From: Ken Krugler > Subject: Re: Color search for images > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Date: Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 9:41 AM > > On

Re: Color search for images

2010-09-15 Thread Shashi Kant
> > On a related note, I'm curious if anyone has run across a good set of > algorithms (or hopefully a library) for doing naive image > classification. I'm looking for something that can classify images > into something similar to the broad categories that Google image > search has (Face, Photo, Cl

Re: Color search for images

2010-09-15 Thread Shashi Kant
Shawn, I have done some research into this, machine-vision especially on a large scale is a hard problem, not to be entered into lightly. I would recommend starting with OpenCV - a comprehensive toolkit for extracting various features such as Color, Edge etc from images. Also there is a project LIR

Re: Color search for images

2010-09-15 Thread Paul Dlug
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Ken Krugler wrote: > > On Sep 15, 2010, at 7:59am, Shawn Heisey wrote: > >> My index consists of metadata for a collection of 45 million objects, most >> of which are digital images.  The executives have fallen in love with >> Google's color image search.  Here's

Re: Color search for images

2010-09-15 Thread Ken Krugler
On Sep 15, 2010, at 7:59am, Shawn Heisey wrote: My index consists of metadata for a collection of 45 million objects, most of which are digital images. The executives have fallen in love with Google's color image search. Here's a search for "flower" with a red color filter: http://www.

Color search for images

2010-09-15 Thread Shawn Heisey
My index consists of metadata for a collection of 45 million objects, most of which are digital images. The executives have fallen in love with Google's color image search. Here's a search for "flower" with a red color filter: http://www.google.com/images?q=flower&tbs=isch:1,ic:specific,isc

Re: Color search

2007-09-29 Thread Chris Hostetter
: I used the same field name (color), not 10 different names (c0 - c9). ah .. got it. then what you are probably seeing is because of length normalization, if you use omitNorms="true" then it shouldn't matter. (i don't know why i suggested a seperate field for each 10% block ... i'm sure i ha

Re: Color search

2007-09-29 Thread Guangwei Yuan
> > can you you explain exactly how you are indexing the data and what your > query looks like? > I used the same field name (color), not 10 different names (c0 - c9). So the index fields look like (50% #00, 20% #99): color: #00 color: #00 color: #00 color: #00 color: #000

Re: Color search

2007-09-29 Thread Chris Hostetter
: extraction algorithm, etc.) So, for a product with 50% of #00, and 20% : of #99, I'll have to fill the remaining three fields with some dummy : values. Otherwise, Lucene seems to score it higher than products that also : have 50% of #00, but more than 20% of some other colors. Since

Re: Color search

2007-09-28 Thread Guangwei Yuan
Thanks for all the replies. I think creating 10 fields and feeding each field with a color's value for 10% from that color is a reasonable approach, and easy to implement too. One problem though, is that not all products have a total of 100% colors (due to various reasons including our color extrac

Re: Color search

2007-09-28 Thread Mike Klaas
On 28-Sep-07, at 6:31 AM, Grant Ingersoll wrote: Another option would be to extend Solr (and donate back) to incorporate Lucene's payload functionality, in which case you could associate the percentile of the color as a payload and use the BoostingTermQuery... :-) If you're interested in

Re: Color search

2007-09-28 Thread Chris Hostetter
: useful to search products by color. A product image can have up to 5 colors : (from a color space of about 100 colors), so we can implement it easily with : Solr's facet search (thanks all who've developed Solr). : : The problem arises when we try to sort the results by the color relevancy. : W

Re: Color search

2007-09-28 Thread Matthew Runo
This discussion is incredibly interesting to me! We solved this simply by indexing the color names, and faceting on that. Not a very elegant solution, to be sure - but it works. If people search for a "green running shoe" they get -green- running shoes. I would be very very interested in ha

Re: Color search

2007-09-28 Thread Steven Rowe
--Renaud > > > -Original Message- > From: Steven Rowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 7:14 AM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Color search > > Hi Guangwei, > > When you index your products, you could have a

RE: Color search

2007-09-28 Thread Renaud Waldura
riday, September 28, 2007 7:14 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Color search Hi Guangwei, When you index your products, you could have a single color field, and include duplicates of each color component proportional to its weight. For example, if you decide to use 10% increments, for your

Re: Color search

2007-09-28 Thread Steven Rowe
Hi Guangwei, When you index your products, you could have a single color field, and include duplicates of each color component proportional to its weight. For example, if you decide to use 10% increments, for your black dress with 70% of black, 20% of gray, 10% of brown, you would index the follo

Re: Color search

2007-09-28 Thread Grant Ingersoll
Another option would be to extend Solr (and donate back) to incorporate Lucene's payload functionality, in which case you could associate the percentile of the color as a payload and use the BoostingTermQuery... :-) If you're interested in this, a discussion on solr-dev is probably warrant

Re: Color search

2007-09-28 Thread Yonik Seeley
If it were just a couple of colors, you could have a separate field for each color and then index the percent in that field. black:70 grey:20 and then you could use a function query to influence the score (or you could sort by the color percent). However, this doesn't scale well to a large index

Color search

2007-09-28 Thread Guangwei Yuan
Hi, We're running an e-commerce site that provides product search. We've been able to extract colors from product images, and we think it'd be cool and useful to search products by color. A product image can have up to 5 colors (from a color space of about 100 colors), so we can implement it easil