List of CBIR engines
Encyclopedia
This is a list of publicly available Content-based image retrieval
(CBIR) engines, these image search engines look at the content (pixels) of their images in order to return results that match a particular query.
Content-based image retrieval
Content-based image retrieval , also known as query by image content and content-based visual information retrieval is the application of computer vision techniques to the image retrieval problem, that is, the problem of searching for digital images in large databases....
(CBIR) engines, these image search engines look at the content (pixels) of their images in order to return results that match a particular query.
Commercial CBIR search engines
| Name | Description | External Image Query | Metadata Query | Index Size (Estimate, Millions of Images) | Organization Type | License (Open/Closed) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bing Image Search | Microsoft's CBIR engine | No | Yes | Public Company | Closed | |
| Elastic Vision | Smart image searcher with content-based clustering in a visual network. | No | No | Private Company | Closed | |
| Google Image Search | Google's CBIR system, note: does not work on all images | No | Yes | Public Company | Closed | |
| Imense Image Search Portal | CBIR search engine, by Imense. | No | Yes | 3M | Private Company | Closed |
| Imprezzeo Image Search | CBIR search engine, by Imprezzeo. | No | Yes | Private Company | Closed | |
| vSearch Visual Image Search | CBIR search engine, by pixolution | Yes | No | 10M | Private Company | Closed |
| Incogna Image Search | CBIR search engine, by Incogna Inc. | No | Yes | 100M | Private Company | Closed |
| Like.com | Shopping & fashion based CBIR engine | No | Yes | 1M | Private Company | Closed |
| MiPai similarity search engine | Online similarity search engine | Yes | Yes | 100M | Individual | Closed |
| Piximilar | Demo engine, developed by Idee Inc. | No | No | 3M | Private Company | Closed |
| Empora | Product comparison & shopping using CBIR for product images. Previously known as Pixsta | No | Yes | 0.5M | Private Company | Closed |
| Shopachu | Shopping & fashion CBIR engine, by Incogna Inc. | No | Yes | 1M | Private Company | Closed |
| TinEye | CBIR site for finding variations of web images, by Idee Inc. | Yes | No | 1800M | Private Company | Closed |
| Tiltomo | CBIR system using Flickr photos | No | Yes | Private Company | Closed | |
| eBay Image Search | Image Search for eBay Fashion | No | Yes | 20M | Public Company | Closed |
| Visual Recognition Factory | Visual Recognition Factory | Yes | Yes | Private Company | Closed |
CBIR research projects/demos/open source projects
| Name | Description | External Image Query | Metadata Query | Index Size (Estimate, Millions of Images) | Organization Type | License (Open/Closed) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALIPR | Developed by Penn State University researchers | Yes | Yes | University | Closed | |
| Anaktisi | This Web-Solution implements a new family of CBIR descriptors. These descriptors combine in one histogram color and texture information and are suitable for accurately retrieving images. | Yes | No | 0.225M | University | Open |
| BRISC | BRISC is a recursive acronym for BRISC Really IS Cool, and is (conveniently enough) also an anagram of Content-Based Image Retrieval System. | Yes | No | University | GPL | |
| Caliph & Emir | Creation and Retrieval of images based on MPEG-7. | Yes | No | Desktop-based | University | GPL |
| CIRES | developed by the University of Texas at Austin. | Yes | No | University | Closed | |
| FIRE | Open source query by visual example CBIR system. Developed at RWTH Aachen University. FIRE is a research system developed with extensibility in mind and can easily be combined with textual information retrieval systems. | Yes | No | University | Open | |
| GNU Image Finding Tool | Query by example image search system. | Yes | No | Desktop-based | GNU | GPL |
| ISSBP | Similar Image Search by Imense plugin for Adobe Bridge, free beta. | Yes | Yes | free-beta limited to 4k images | Private Company | Closed |
| img(Rummager) | Image retrieval Engine (Freeware Application). | Yes | No | Desktop-based | Individual | Closed |
| imgSeek | photo collection manager and viewer with content-based search and many other features. | Yes | No | Individual | GPL | |
| IKONA | Generic CBIR system - INRIA - IMEDIA | Yes | Yes | University | Closed | |
| MIFile | Image similarity search engine based on MI File (Metric Inverted File). | Yes | No | 100M | Research Institute | Open |
| MUVIS | CBIR System at TUT- Tampere University of Technology. | Yes | No | Desktop-based | University | Closed |
| PIRIA | CBIR tool developed at CEA-LIST, LIC2M (Multimedia Multilingual Knowledge Engineering Laboratory). | Yes | Yes | 3M | University | Closed |
| PicsLikeThat | Image search using visual similarity search and sorting combined with a recommender system. (Cooperation of pixolution, fotolia and HTW Berlin) | No | No | 12M | University | Closed |
| Pixcavator | Similar image search based on topological image analysis | Yes | No | Desktop-based | Private company | Closed |
| pixolu | visual & semantic image search engine, by pixolution GmbH & HTW Berlin. | Yes | No | Private Company / University | Closed | |
| RETIN | Interactive images retrieval system - CNRS - ETIS Lab., MIDI Team | No | No | University | Closed | |
| Retrievr | Search and explore in a selection of Flickr images by drawing a rough sketch or uploading an image. | No | No | University | Closed | |
| SIMBA | demo of system by the Albert-Ludwigs-Universitet Freiburg (Germany) Inst. for Pattern Recognition and Image Processing | Yes | No | 0.002M | University | Closed |
| TagProp | The demonstration of image annotation tool TagProp in ICCV2009 for image set: Corel 5k ESP Game IAPR TC-12 and MIR Flickr. | No | Yes | Institute | Closed | |
| VIRaL | Visual Image Retrieval and Localization: A visual search engine that, given a query image, retrieves photos depicting the same object or scene under varying viewpoint or lighting conditions. Using Flickr photos of urban scenes, it automatically estimates where a picture is taken, suggests tags, identifies known landmarks or points of interest, and links to relevant Wikipedia articles. It currently supports 39 cities around the world. | Yes | Yes | 2.221M | University | Closed |
| Windsurf | A general framework for efficiently processing content-based image queries with particular emphasis to the region-based paradigm; it provides an environment where different alternatives of the paradigm can be implemented, allowing such implementations to be compared on a fair basis, from the points of view of both effectiveness and efficiency. | Yes | No | University | Closed |