Visual Information Retrieval Using Java and LIRE

Mathias Lux is a Senior Assistant Professor at the Institute for InformationTechnology (ITEC) at Klagenfurt University, where he has been since 2006. He received his M.S. in Mathematics in 2004 and his Ph.D. in Telematics in 2006 from Graz University of Technology. Before joining Klagenfurt University, he worked in industry on web-based applications, as a junior researcher at a research center for knowledge-based applications,and as research and teaching assistant at the Knowledge Management Institute (KMI) of Graz University of Technology. In research,he is working on user intentions in multimedia retrieval and production, visual information retrieval, and serious games.In his scientific career he has (co) authored more than 60 scientific publications, has served in multiple program committees and as reviewer of international conferences, journals, and magazines, and has organized several scientific events. He is also well known for managing the development of the award-winning and popular open source tools Caliph & Emir and LIRE for visual information retrieval.Oge Marques is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer & Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) (Boca Raton, Florida). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from FAU in 2001. He has more than 20 years of teaching and research experience in the fields of image processing and computer vision, in different countries (U.S., Austria, Brazil, Netherlands, Spain, France, and India), languages (English, Portuguese, Spanish), and capacities.He is the (co) author of more than 50 refereed journal and conference papers and several books in these topics, including the textbook Practical Image and Video Processing Using MATLAB (Wiley, 2011). His research interests are in the area of intelligent processing of visual information, which combines the fields of image processing, computer vision, image retrieval, machine learning, serious games, and human visual perception. He is particularly interested in the combination of human computation and machine learning techniques to solve computer vision problems. He is a senior member of both the ACM and IEEE, and a member of the IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Education Society, IEEE Signal Processing Society, and the honor societies of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, and Upsilon Pi Epsilon.

• Introduction.- Information Retrieval: Selected Concepts and Techniques.- Visual Features.- Indexing Visual Features.- LIRE: An Extensible Java CBIR Library.- Concluding Remarks.