Re: [help-GIFT] Using GIFT for symbol recognition

[David Squire]

Philip Farrugia wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thank you for your post. As you indicated my interest is about symbols 
> making up the whole image. Basically, what I want from GIFT is that it 
> returns a label for an input image of *one* symbol. Obviously,  I'd 
> need to create my own set of images in the database.
OK. First, a content-based image retrieval system produces a ranked list 
of images as a query result, not a label. You would need to write some 
code that parsed the MRML message returned by the GIFT as a query result 
to convert it into a label (e.g. by extracting the filename of the top 
ranked image, mapping that to a label, etc.)
> Please do bear with me.. I'm new to GIFT...kindly can you indicate any 
> user's manual to get familiar in using the code of this software? For 
> instance, how to index a directory structure containing my set of images?
I'm afraid that there is no user manual as such. There are instructions 
on adding a collection in the GIFT tarball. You can get the GIFT, and 
this information, from http://www.gnu.org/software/gift/gift.html

Regards,

David


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