Where is the semantic data coming from? I think something like lucene would
be more relevant if you are searching text based on available meta data.

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Sean Owen <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
> >
>

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