*Project Title*
A C++ Implementation of the CBISC

*Project Description* 

CBISC is a recently developed component that provides an easy-to-install search engine to query images by content. 
It can be  readily tailored for a particular collection by a domain expert, who carries out a clearly defined set of 
pilot experiments. It supports the use of different types of vector-based image descriptors (metric  and non-metric; 
color, texture, and shape descriptors; with different data structures to represent feature vectors), which can be chosen 
based on the pilot experiment, and then easily combined to yield improved effectiveness. Besides, it encapsulates a metric 
index structure to speed up the search process, that can be  easily configured for different image collections.

This project aims to re-implement the CBISC, using the C++ language. 


*Language/technology skills*
Java, C++

*Number of People*
1-2

*Project Resources*

1. R. da S. Torres, C. B. Medeiros, M. A. Goncalves, and E. A. Fox, A Digital Library Framework for Biodiversity 
Information Systems, International Journal on Digital Libraries, 6(1):3-17, February, 2006. 
http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~rtorres/torres06ijdl.pdf

2. R. da S. Torres, C. B. Medeiros, M. A. Goncalves, and E. A. Fox, An OAI Compliant Content-Based Image Search 
Component , ACM-IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Tucson, AZ, 418, June 2004.
http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~rtorres/torres04jcdldemo.pdf