Editing Content-based image retrieval (section)

==Applications==
Potential uses for CBIR include:<ref name="Eakins"/>
* Architectural and engineering design
* [[Art collections]]
* [[Crime prevention]]
* [[Geographic information systems|Geographical information]] and [[remote sensing]] systems
* [[Intellectual property]]
* [[Medical diagnosis]]
* [[Military]]
* Photograph archives
* Retail catalogs
* Nudity-detection filters<ref>{{cite journal | last=Wang |first = James Ze |author2=Jia Li |author2-link=Jia Li|author3=Gio Wiederhold |author4=Oscar Firschein|title=System for Screening Objectionable Images|journal=Computer Communications|year = 1998|volume=21|issue=15|pages=1355–1360|doi=10.1016/s0140-3664(98)00203-5|citeseerx = 10.1.1.78.7689 }}</ref>
* [[Facial recognition system|Face Finding]]
* Textiles Industry<ref name="Bird">{{cite conference | last=Bird | first=C.L. | author2=P.J. Elliott |author3=E. Griffiths | title=User interfaces for content-based image retrieval |book-title=IEE Colloquium on Intelligent Image Databases |publisher=IET |doi=10.1049/ic:19960746 |date=1996}}</ref>

Commercial Systems that have been developed include:<ref name="Eakins"/>
* IBM's QBIC
* Virage's VIR Image Engine
* Excalibur's Image RetrievalWare
* VisualSEEk and WebSEEk
* Netra
* MARS
* Vhoto
* Pixolution

Experimental Systems include:<ref name="Eakins"/>
* MIT's Photobook
* Columbia University's WebSEEk
* Carnegie-Mellon University's Informedia
* iSearch - PICT