FoundIt Project

Feedback-operated User Interface for Design and Image Retrieval

The FoundIt project aims to develop an interface for content-based image retrieval (CBIR) that allows users to give relevance feedback in a natural and intuitively transparent manner. The qualitative feedback obtained by the interface is transformed by means of parametric probability models into information on the relevance of each image in the database.

The viability of the system will be demonstrated by means of a number of challenging and economically important applications on special-purpose image and design libraries, where fast and accurate CBIR represents significant added value.

The project started in September 2001 and will continue until September 2003. It is supported by the European Commission under the Information Society Technologies programme of the Fifth Framework (Project nr. IST-2000-28427). More detailed information on the project and its philosophy can be found here.

For a concise pictorial introduction to the project goals and methodology, have a look at some screenshots of our current prototype.