===== ComMon SensE: Cross-Modal Search Engine =====
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**STATUS: TEST PHASE** This [[http://dolphin.unige.ch/cmse|demo]] may be unstable...

The CMSE is our initiative to develop a framework for cross-modal multimedia search. 

The CMSE is first a feature extraction library. Based on the OpenCV framework, it is able to process images 
of any type and extract many features related to 
   * Color
   * Texture
   * Edges
   * Faces
   * ...
The CMSE also accounts for the textual modality and indexes it as the classical bags-of-words.

The CMSE is then an indexing engine built around our defined indexing and retrieval strategies (see references below).

** Some references ** (see also [[research:publications|our list of publications]])
  * Bruno, É., Moënne-Loccoz, N., & Marchand-Maillet, S. (2008). Design of multimodal dissimilarity spaces for retrieval of multimedia documents. //IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence//, 30(9), 1520-1533.
  * Kludas, J., Bruno, E., & Marchand-Maillet, S. (2008). Can Feature Information Interaction help for Information Fusion in Multimedia Problems?. To appear in //Multimedia Tools and Applications Journal// special issue on "Metadata Mining for Image Understanding".
  * Bruno, E., Kludas, J., & Marchand-Maillet, S. (2007). Combining Multimodal Preferences for Multimedia Information Retrieval. In //Proc. of International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval//, Augsburg, Germany.