An Atlas for the Web
Just try using a search engine to find a picture of yourself on the Web. You’ll be surprised at all of the results you’ll get.
 That’s because traditional search engines use words to find images. When searching for an image, you just have to hope it was classified with the right keywords and that you won’t be deluged with a sea of information.
“The great paradox of the Web is that the more information is available about a given subject, the more difficult it is to locate the information you need in a reasonable time,” says computer scientist Dr. Djemel Ziou.
But before you drown in all of this information, you should know that a new search engine, Atlas WISE, can help you search and retrieve photos, images and videos on the Web, in databases and digital libraries in no time.
 Atlas WISE, an abbreviation for Atlas, a Web-Based Image Retrieval Engine, was developed by NSERC researchers Dr. Ziou and his team at the Université de Sherbrooke, in collaboration with CoRIMedia, the Consortium in Digital Imaging, Video and Multimedia (Consortium de recherche en imagerie numérique, vidéo et multimédia).
The new search engine analyzes and interprets the content of images using a new optimal feature selection algorithm. When searching in an image database or on the Internet, Atlas WISE analyzes the content of the request to find the exact image quickly. The user can refine searches with the help of a relevance feedback mechanism.
Contact:
Dr. Djemel Ziou
Université de Sherbrooke
Tel: (819) 821-8000 ext. 2859
E-mail: Djemel.Ziou@USherbrooke.ca
Web site: http://www.usherbrooke.ca/liaison/vol31/v31n14/ZIOU.html
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