Data
Classic Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) takes a single non-annotated query image, and retrieves similar images from an image repository. Such a search must rely upon a holistic (or global) view of the image. Yet often the desired content of an image is not holistic, but is localized. Specifically, we define Localized Content-Based Image Retrieval as a CBIR task where the user is only interested in a portion of the image, and the rest of the image is irrelevant. ACCIO! is a Localized CBIR System that uses labeled images in conjunction with a multiple-instance learning algorithm to first identify the desired object and re-weight the features, and then to rank images in the database using a similarity measure that is based upon individual regions within the image.

We have created the following three data sets: