Quicklook(2): An integrated multimedia system with learning capabilities

The need to retrieve visual information from large image and video collections is shared by many application domains ([1, 11,) (13, 16)]. This paper describes the main features of Quicklook(2), a system that combines in a single framework the alphanumeric relational query, the content-based image query exploiting automatically computed low-level image features (such as color and texture), and the textual similarity query exploiting any textual annotations attached to image database items (such as figure captions or textual cards...).