WebSEEk: Content-based Image and Video Catalog and Search Engine for the Web

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A Content-Based Image and Video Search Engine and Catalog for the Web



Many people ask what is WebSEEk? Why WebSEEk? Ugh. WebSEEk, how did the name arrive?

So we will tell you. It came in a vision -- a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them ``From this day on you are WebSEEk with a capital SEE.'' Thank you, Mister Man, they said, thanking him.


WebSEEk was developed by John R. Smith at the Digital Video and Multimedia Lab under the supervision of Prof. Shih-Fu Chang. It has been ported to the current machine by Tony Chun Hao Wang in May 2004. Please send questions or comments to: jrsmith@ee.columbia.edu or sfchang@ee.columbia.edu

WebSEEk is a new effort to catalog the visual information on the World Wide Web. WebSEEk has so far catalogued over 650,000 images and videos from many sites on the WWW, and maybe even your own!


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J. R. Smith and S.-F. Chang, Visually Searching the Web for Content, IEEE Multimedia. July - Sept, 1997, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 12-20; part of paper also in Columbia University CTR Technical Report # 459-96-25, 1996.
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J. R. Smith and S.-F. Chang, An Image and Video Search Engine for the World-Wide Web, Proceedings, IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology (EI'97) - Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases V, San Jose, CA, February 1997.
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WebSEEk has catalogued images and videos