Introduction
The multimedia information retrieval SDK is intended to help IR researchers and application developers. It offers new functionalities to application developers:
- Multimedia indexing by keyword according to some model.
- Multimedia search by keyword and search by example.
- Algorithms to create multimedia models
- Statistical modelling algorithms that support different types of data: sparse data (text, links) and dense data (visual, audio).
Extensible application framework for new algorithms (researcher).
Tutorials
The first two tutorials present the toolkit and the existing methods to access the available functionalities. The final tutorial details the configurations of new models with the existing algorithms.
First steps: In this tutorial we present a brief description of the components of the toolkit, its functionalities, algorithms, and architecture.
Indexing, Searching and Modelling Multimedia: The toolkit already provides a set of models that the user can apply out-of-the-box in any indexing and search application. This tutorial explains how to use the Java component to access these functionalities.
Multimedia Modelling: This tutorial is for the more experienced user that wishes to develop specific models to index multimedia, and to the researcher that wishes to test different configurations of the existing algorithms.
These tutorials are just as rough guide to the toolkit: more details can be found on the documentation of each component.
Download
Multimedia Information Retrieval SDK V 0.3. It includes the following:
- C++ library with algorithms.
- Java wrapper.
History
v0.3 released on the 21th March 2008.
v0.2.5 released on the 9th March 2008.
v0.2 released on the 29th February 2008.
v0.1 released on the 15th October 2007.
Acknowledgements
MIR-SDK was partially sponsored by the Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia under the scholarshop number SFRH/ BD/ 16283/ 2004/ K5N01.
MIR-SDK was partially funded by the X-Media project, sponsored by the European Commission as part of the Information Society Technologies (IST) programme under EC grant number IST- FP6- 026978.
