.TH "gnuift" "1" 
.SH "NAME" 
gnuift \(em GNU Image Finding Tool \- index and search images by 
content 
.SH "DESCRIPTION" 
.PP 
This manual page documents briefly the 
\fBgnuift\fR and \fBgift-*\fR       commands. 
.PP 
This manual page was written for the \fBDebian\fP distribution 
because the original program does not have a manual page. 
.PP 
The GIFT (the GNU Image-Finding Tool) is a Content Based Image 
Retrieval System (CBIRS). It enables you to do Query By Example on 
images, giving you the opportunity to improve query results by 
relevance feedback. For processing your queries the program relies 
entirely on the content of the images, freeing you from the need to 
annotate all images before querying the collection. 
.PP 
The GIFT comes with a tool which lets you index whole directory trees 
containing images in one go. You then can use the GIFT server and its 
client, to browse your own image collections. 
.PP 
The GIFT is an open framework for content-based image retrieval. We 
explicitly have taken into account the possibility of adding new ways 
of querying to the framework. Our communication protocol for 
client-server communication, MRML, is XML based and fully documented 
(http://www.mrml.net). This aims at promoting code reuse among 
researchers and application developers. 
.PP 
The current version of the GIFT can be seen in action at 
http://viper.unige.ch/demo/ 
.PP 
The GIFT (ex Viper) is the result of a research effort at the Vision   
Group at the CUI (computer science center) of the University of Geneva 
(see http://vision.unige.ch/). This cutting-edge research has been the 
subject of several publications and conference talks. Details can be 
found at http://viper.unige.ch/. 
 
.SH "SEE ALSO" 
.PP 
The gnuift-doc package contains reference manuals, configuration  
hints and further information. 
.SH "AUTHOR" 
.PP 
This manual page was written by Robert Jordens jordens@debian.org for the 
\fBDebian\fP system (but may be used by others).  Permission is granted 
to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of 
the GNU General Public License, Version 2. On 
Debian systems, the full text of this license can be found in the 
file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2. 
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