Editing Content-based image retrieval (section)

==={{Visible anchor|QBIC}} - Query By Image Content===
The earliest commercial CBIR system was developed by IBM and was called '''QBIC''' ('''Q'''uery '''B'''y '''I'''mage '''C'''ontent).<ref>{{cite journal  |title=Query by image and video content: the QBIC system
|quote=Abstract: Research on ways to extend and improve query methods for image databases  is widespread. We have developed the QBIC (Query by Image Content) ...|doi=10.1109/2.410146
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}}</ref><ref name="Rui">{{cite journal|last1=Rui|first1=Yong|last2=Huang|first2=Thomas S.|last3=Chang|first3=Shih-Fu|title=Image Retrieval: Current Techniques, Promising Directions, and Open Issues|journal=Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation|date=1999|volume=10|pages=39–62|doi=10.1006/jvci.1999.0413|citeseerx=10.1.1.32.7819|s2cid=2910032 }}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Recent network- and graph-based approaches have presented a simple and attractive alternative to existing methods.<ref name="Banerjee">{{cite journal|last1=Banerjee, S. J.|display-authors=et al|title=Using complex networks towards information retrieval and diagnostics in multidimensional imaging|journal=Scientific Reports|date=2015|volume=5|pages=17271|doi=10.1038/srep17271|arxiv=1506.02602|pmid=26626047|pmc=4667282|bibcode=2015NatSR...517271B}}</ref>

While the storing of multiple images as part of a single entity preceded the term [[Object storage|BLOB]] ('''B'''inary '''L'''arge '''OB'''ject),<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.cvalde.net/misc/blob_true_history.htm
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723065224/http://www.cvalde.net/misc/blob_true_history.htm
|url-status=dead
|archive-date=2011-07-23
|title=The true story of BLOBs}}</ref> the ability to fully search by content, rather than by description, had to await IBM's QBIC.<ref name=IW.1996>{{cite magazine  |magazine=[[InformationWeek|Information Week]] (OnLine-reprinted in Silicon Investor's Stock Discussion Forums (Aug. 6, 1996)  |page=69 (IW)  |author=Julie Anderson  |date=April 29, 1996  |title=Search Images / Object Design Inc - Bargain of the year Stock Discussion Forums (Aug. 6, 1996)  |url=https://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsgs.aspx?subjectid=6903%26msgnum=17%26batchsize=10%26batchtype=Previous  |quote=At DB Expo in San Francisco earlier this month ...  }}{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>