Re: [help-GIFT] Lookinf for Feature Extraction & Search Algorithms

[Wolfgang Mueller]

Dear Phil,

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Phil McConchie wrote:

> Does anyone have any multimedia file feature extraction algorithms and
> feature set search algorithms they could email me?
> 
> Ideally they would be implemented in Java; 'next ideally' as it were, they
> would be either implemented in C++ 

I guess you already looked into the FeatureExtraction subfolder of the GIFT 
distro?

> or just explained in a document (from
> which I would convert them into Java).
> 
> I would like to get hold of a couple search and a couple extraction
> (preferably for different media types) use with a MRML client and server I
> am developing.

Howz it going? Any sources look-at-able, yet?

> Cheers, Phil.
> 
> PS:  It would be great to at least get algorithms for jpeg, gif, wav and

In fact, vanilla (i.e. SUN's) JAVA is able to read jpeg and gif out of
the box. I personally found the JAVA sound API very flexible but
surely not the thing for the quick hack. Someone suggested me sox to
use for quick hacking. However, I guess you want to stay pure JAVA for
easy installing, right?

> perhaps even one other for a more complex type of file such as some type of
> video.

Cheers,
Wolfgang

Dr. Wolfgang Mueller
LS Medieninformatik
Universitaet Bamberg