VGG Image Search Engine (VISE) is a free and open source software for visual search of large collection of images using image region as a search query. VISE is developed and maintained by Visual Geometry Group (VGG) in Department of Engineering Science of the Oxford University. VISE is released under a license that allows unrestricted use in academic research projects and commercial industrial applications.
VISE builds on the C++ codebase developed by Dr. Relja Arandjelović during his DPhil / Postdoc at the Visual Geometry Group in 2014. VISE is developed and maintained by Dr. Abhishek Dutta. The VISE project has been made possible by the guidance and support of Prof. Andrew Zisserman.
Development and maintenance of VISE software has been supported by the following two grants:
- Visual AI: An Open World Interpretable Visual Transformer (UKRI Grant EP/T028572/1)
- Seebibyte: Visual Search for the Era of Big Data (EPSRC Grant EP/M013774/1)
For more details, visit https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/software/vise/
The VISE software installers can be downloaded from the VISE software page. Source code is available from VISE gitlab code repository.
See doc/User-Guide.md for instructions on using VISE for creating visual search engine. You can also read the frequently asked questions page to learn more about VISE.
See doc/Compiling-VISE.md for instructions on compiling the VISE source code in Windows, Linux and MacOS platforms. A Docker image of VISE can also be build using the provided Dockerfile. For testing VISE source code and assessing its image retrieval performance, see doc/Testing-VISE.md. The VISE HTTP server REST API specification are described in doc/HTTP-REST-API.md.
Contact Abhishek Dutta for any queries or feedback related to this software application.