Exploring CBIR concepts in the CTRnet Project

The project crises, Tragedy and Recovery Network (CTRnet) is an effort to build an integrated distributed digital library for providing a rich suite of CTR-related services. This report describes an independent study conducted at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, consisting of collecting and archiving information related to the Haiti earthquake, later used to explore content-based image retrieval (CBIR) concepts. The objective was to collect and categorize relevant pictures related to the earthquake, followed by the exploration of practical CBIR concepts, such as descriptors, feature vectors, and experiment design.

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