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This is probably old news to you, but just in case I am forwarding it anyway.
I received it in Edupage, the electronic updating service from Educom.
Anyway, I thought this was interesting.  Mary

FINDING IMAGES IN A DATABASE
Software from Virage can compare images with a kind of visual template, in
much the same way that the human brain functions.  The Virage software
reduces the essence of each image into a 1-kilobyte file called a feature
vector, based on shapes, textures, colors and placement.  (Forbes 2 Dec 96
p240)
See < http://www.virage.com > for demo.

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Mary Molinaro
Team Leader, Young Library
University of Kentucky Libraries
123 King South
Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0039

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