Research into the theory and practice of visual information retrieval is of long standing at the University of Brighton.
This work is set in the context of a visually oriented society which has harnessed successive technologies to facilitate the creation and transmission of records in the visual medium, without a corresponding facility for gaining effective access to the knowledge encoded within those records.
Various leading image archives and libraries have collaborated in a number of externally funded studies undertaken at Brighton, the main focus of enquiry being the analysis of user need for both still and moving images. These studies have been designed to provide an informed view on the functionality of image indexing and retrieval strategies, an issue which has come to prominence in the research agenda for information retrieval and computer science in recent years owing to new, digitally-enabled capabilities in image processing and management.
Visual Image Retrieval website
Projects
- Bridging the semantic gap in visual information retrieval
- VIRAMI - Visual Information Retrieval for Archival Moving Imagery
- Design and Implementation Factors in Electronic Image Retrieval Systems
- Information need in the visual document domain
- Analysis of visual information retrieval queries
Group members
- Academic staff: Professor Peter Enser, Criss Sandom
Recent conference
- Semantic Image Retrieval - The User Perspective, 26th-27th March, 2007
