You probably want to look at Shannon's spectral clustering code? That's the closest thing I can think of in Mahout. It doesn't have much of anything for image processing.
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 5:02 PM, gagan chhabra <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello all, > > I am a Engineering candidate and took a project which is based on Machine > Learning. The idea is to Query-by-Image, it is a research paper by > Googlers. > I am not getting any point to start off. > > I don know if Mahout is of any use to me but since it is meant for Machine > Learnig I joined to know more about it. > > My application will go like: > > User eneters a query( which is an image). > > > Then the application searches for other images in database with same > semantic. > for example- if user enter an image of dog the app will retrieve other > images of dog > or if user enters an image of snowy-mountain it retrieves simila image. > > So i don get how to compare images. What metric to use to declare any > image > similar to query image. > > Please suggest something... any help will make a huge difference. > > -- > gagan >
