SemanticMetadata.net

SemanticMetadata.net Wiki Opened

Trying to fulfil the need for an up-to-date and extensive documentation, I put the SemanticMetadata.net wiki online. The first pages are dedicated to the usage and API of Lire, including sample source code and detailed instructions as well as some basic performance test results.

Please feel free to edit the documentation pages in the wiki if you finde typos or if you have some content, tip or trick to add.

Lire 0.1 released

The LIRE (Lucene Image REtrieval) library a simple way to create a Lucene index of image features for content based image retrieval (CBIR). The used features are taken from the MPEG-7 Standard: ScalableColor, ColorLayout and EdgeHistogram. Furthermore methods for searching the index are provided.

The LIRE library is part of the Caliph & Emir project and aims to provide the CBIR features of Caliph & Emir to other Java projects in an easy and light weight way.

Downloads

• Lire 0.1 binaries and source (from sourceforge.net)
• Lire 0.1 source only (from sourceforge.net)

For more information see: http://www.semanticmetadata.net/lire/

NetBeans 5.0 Finally Here

Just heard: NetBeans 5.0 has arrived. After some betas und 2 release candidates the new IDE from Sun came as a final version. There’s support for CVS, Web Services and some J2EE servers / servlet containers as well as a GUI builder called Matisse. A Java profiler is also available as an additional package.
I’ve already tested the betas and release candidates and switched to Matisse for creating all my dialogs for Caliph & Emir. Major drawbacks of Netbeans 5.0 are:

• You cannot use SVN and CVS, you have to decide which one to use, there is no easy switch.
• The editor pane of NetBeans is, compared to IDEA and Eclipse, quite slow.
• Some of the features are not intuitive, especially the profiler – although integrated in the IDE – is hard to use compared to commercial products.