DIStributed COntent-based Visual Information Retrieval

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• DISCOVIR
• CBIR function in Gnutella network in addition
  to filename search
• Downloadable plug-in module based on your
  needs
• Preview in thumbnails that saves your time
• Draw pad allowing you to draw your own query
  image
• Contribute to the Web users
• Reveal geographical location of source

• Contributions
• Rich queries compared to existing filename
  search
• Reduce unnecessary download by thumbnail
  preview functionality

Architecture of DISCOVIR
Bridging the P2P and WWW Divide
DIStributed COntent-based Visual Information
Retrieval
Ka Cheung Sia, Cheuk Hang Ng, Chi Hang Chan, Siu
Kong Chan, Lai Yi Ho Multimedia Information
Processing Lab - http//www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/mipla
b Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong kcsia, chng,
chchan, skchan3, lyho _at_ cse.cuhk.edu.hk

• DISCOVIR Everywhere contributions
• Distribute and balance queries workload from the
  Web among peers
• Reduced workload on query gateway compared to
  existing methods

Procedures of Web-based queries 1 Upload query
image to DISCOVIR gateway 2,3 Locate available
DISCOVIR peer through bootstrap server 4,5
Delegate query and result collection task to
DISCOVIR peers 6 Generate HTML for web user to
download directly from peers
Selected Reference
1 The Gnutella project http//www.gnutella.com
2 The LimeWire project http//www.limewire.com 3
C. H. Ng and K. C. Sia, Peer Clustering and
Firework Query Model, In Poster Proceedings
of WWW 2002