*Project Title*
CBISC Performance Evaluation

*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 run experiments to evaluate the performance of the CBISC considering large image collections.


*Language/technology skills*
Java

*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