IMEDIA Project

The main goal of the IMEDIA project is to develop content-based image indexing techniques and interactive search and retrieval methods for browsing large multimedia databases by content.

We study "generic" image databases as well as "domain-specific" databases (e.g. faces, medical imagery...). These two categories are related respectively to image retrieval and object recognition. In fact, image retrieval is a wider domain that contains object recognition but also integrates user interactions.

More generally, the IMEDIA team achieves research, collaborations, and technology transfer on the complex issue of intelligent access to multimedia data streams.

A prototype software illustrates the research that is lead at IMEDIA.