The Query By Image Content (QBIC) System

Summary: Prototype QBIC retrieves images by content features (colors, textures, shapes) using similarity on high-dim vectors. Graphical queries with predicates and a Motif GUI over ~2300 images demonstrate early, user-driven content-based retrieval. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2848
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1995
Pagerank: 0.00027229588
Overall Rank: 330 | 97.71%
DOI: -

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
34	Similarity Search in High Dimensions via Hashing	1999	VLDB	0.00076637636
79	A Quantitative Analysis and Performance Study for Similarity-Search Methods in High-Dimensional Spaces	1998	VLDB	0.00056242144
284	The SR-tree: An Index Structure for High-Dimensional Nearest Neighbor Queries	1997	SIGMOD	0.00028994728
316	NoScope: Optimizing Neural Network Queries over Video at Scale	2017	VLDB	0.00027988668
325	The History of Histograms (abridged)	2003	VLDB	0.00027378328
665	Fast Nearest Neighbor Search in Medical Image Databases	1996	VLDB	0.00018451109
696	BlazeIt: Optimizing Declarative Aggregation and Limit Queries for Neural Network-Based Video Analytics	2020	VLDB	0.00018048935
770	A Comprehensive Survey and Experimental Comparison of Graph-Based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search	2021	VLDB	0.00016917602
1,336	Clustering Categorical Data: An Approach Based on Dynamical Systems	1998	VLDB	0.00012498064
1,657	Challenges and Opportunities in DNN-Based Video Analytics: A Demonstration of the BlazeIt Video Query Engine	2019	CIDR	0.00010987105
2,089	Active Storage For Large-Scale Data Mining and Multimedia	1998	VLDB	9.5657612e-05
2,661	WALRUS: A Similarity Retrieval Algorithm for Image Databases	1999	SIGMOD	8.3575285e-05
4,407	Filtering with Approximate Predicates	1998	VLDB	6.2133426e-05
4,501	TASTI: Semantic Indexes for Machine Learning-based Queries over Unstructured Data	2022	SIGMOD	6.137686e-05
6,182	Top-K Deep Video Analytics: A Probabilistic Approach	2021	SIGMOD	5.1682689e-05
7,837	GTI: Graph-based Tree Index with Logarithm Updates for Nearest Neighbor Search in High-Dimensional Spaces	2025	VLDB	4.6379694e-05
8,123	Similarity Search for Adaptive Ellipsoid Queries Using Spatial Transformation	2001	VLDB	4.5801104e-05
8,814	Indexing Images in Oracle8i	2000	SIGMOD	4.4435503e-05
9,003	Qcluster: Relevance Feedback Using Adaptive Clustering for Content-Based Image Retrieval	2003	SIGMOD	4.4106026e-05
11,099	Demonstration of MaskSearch: Efficiently Querying Image Masks for Machine Learning Workflows	2024	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
12,737	MultiMediaMiner: A System Prototype for MultiMedia Data Mining	1998	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
12,756	Multimedia Support for Databases	1997	PODS	4.1945683e-05
12,778	Facilitating Multimedia Database Exploration through Visual Interfaces and Perpetual Query Reformulations	1997	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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