Hello Steven Bourke, The data is actually not text. Query is an Image and database again of images.
I wanted to know how can one declare one image similar to another, in programming terms. I mean there has to some parameter of analysis or algorithm which can solve this problem. On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Steven Bourke <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > -- gagan
