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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
h21a6c834a7ae7a26
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1995
Pagerank
0.0002018411
Overall Rank
350 | 97.66%
DOI
10.1145/223784.223888

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{ashley_sigmod95,
        title = {{The Query By Image Content (QBIC) System}},
        author = {Ashley, Jonathan and Flickner, Myron and Hafner, James and Lee, Denis and Niblack, Wayne and Petkovic, Dragutin},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '95},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/223784.223888},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/223784.223888},
        year = {1995}
}

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282 The SR-tree: An Index Structure for High-Dimensional Nearest Neighbor Queries 1997 SIGMOD 0.00022250557
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541 BlazeIt: Optimizing Declarative Aggregation and Limit Queries for Neural Network-Based Video Analytics 2020 VLDB 0.00016627384
843 Fast Nearest Neighbor Search in Medical Image Databases 1996 VLDB 0.00013501136
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1,759 Clustering Categorical Data: An Approach Based on Dynamical Systems 1998 VLDB 9.6978328e-05
2,456 Active Storage For Large-Scale Data Mining and Multimedia 1998 VLDB 8.4204678e-05
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8,592 Similarity Search for Adaptive Ellipsoid Queries Using Spatial Transformation 2001 VLDB 5.2936565e-05
9,216 Indexing Images in Oracle8i 2000 SIGMOD 5.1919937e-05
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11,677 Demonstration of MaskSearch: Efficiently Querying Image Masks for Machine Learning Workflows 2024 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
13,267 MultiMediaMiner: A System Prototype for MultiMedia Data Mining 1998 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
13,287 Multimedia Support for Databases 1997 PODS 4.9605343e-05
13,309 Facilitating Multimedia Database Exploration through Visual Interfaces and Perpetual Query Reformulations 1997 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
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