README.md

Icon Style Matcher and Retrieval System

A content based retrieval system (CBIR) to find icons with similiar styles based on LIRE

Dependencies

• OPENCV OpenCV library bindings for Java MUST be located at: C:/opencv/build/java/x64/opencv_java401.dll if not download opencv 4.0.1 (or >) from https://opencv.org/releases.html

• LUCENE Download all the lucene binaries from https://lucene.apache.org/core/ and follow this tutorial https://lucene.apache.org/core/8_0_0/demo/overview-summary.html#Setting_your_CLASSPATH I suggest you to put lucene main folder into C:/

Packing all together

1. Download the LIRE source code from www.lire-project.net
2. Copy src/ and res/ folders into LIRE main folder, if asked to join folders, say YES to all
3. Import the LIRE sources in any IDE that supports Gradle (e.g. Eclipse)
4. Export as JAR from the IDE

Usage

1. Index: path/to/jar index path/to/images/folder
2. Search path/to/jar search path/to/image_to_search path/to/folder_for_saving_results

Authors

• Manuel Scurti
• Jeanne Bosc-Bierne