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  <!ENTITY dhfirstname "<firstname>Robert</firstname>">
  <!ENTITY dhsurname   "<surname>Jordens</surname>">
  <!ENTITY dhdate      "<date>Sep  4, 2003</date>">
  <!ENTITY dhsection   "<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>">
  <!ENTITY dhemail     "<email>jordens@debian.org</email>">
  <!ENTITY dhusername  "Robert Jordens">
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      &dhsurname;
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      <year>2003</year>
      <holder>&dhusername;</holder>
    </copyright>
    &dhdate;
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    &dhsection;
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    <refname>&dhpackage;</refname>

    <refpurpose>GNU Image Finding Tool - index and search images by
	content</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>
  <refsect1>
    <title>DESCRIPTION</title>

    <para>This manual page documents briefly the
      <command>&dhpackage;</command> and <command>gift-*</command>
      commands.</para>

    <para>This manual page was written for the &debian; distribution
      because the original program does not have a manual page.</para>

    <para>
 The GIFT (the GNU Image-Finding Tool) is a Content Based Image
 Retrieval System (CBIRS). It enables you to do Query By Example on
 images, giving you the opportunity to improve query results by
 relevance feedback. For processing your queries the program relies
 entirely on the content of the images, freeing you from the need to
 annotate all images before querying the collection.
</para><para>
 The GIFT comes with a tool which lets you index whole directory trees
 containing images in one go. You then can use the GIFT server and its
 client, to browse your own image collections.
</para><para>
 The GIFT is an open framework for content-based image retrieval. We
 explicitly have taken into account the possibility of adding new ways
 of querying to the framework. Our communication protocol for
 client-server communication, MRML, is XML based and fully documented
 (http://www.mrml.net). This aims at promoting code reuse among
 researchers and application developers.
</para><para>
 The current version of the GIFT can be seen in action at
 http://viper.unige.ch/demo/
</para><para>
 The GIFT (ex Viper) is the result of a research effort at the Vision  
Group at the CUI (computer science center) of the University of Geneva
 (see http://vision.unige.ch/). This cutting-edge research has been the
 subject of several publications and conference talks. Details can be
 found at http://viper.unige.ch/.
	</para>

  </refsect1>
  <refsect1>
    <title>SEE ALSO</title>

    <para>The gnuift-doc package contains reference manuals, configuration 
	hints and further information.</para>
  </refsect1>
  <refsect1>
    <title>AUTHOR</title>
	<para>This manual page was written by &dhusername; &dhemail; for the
	&debian; system (but may be used by others).  Permission is granted
	to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of
	the <acronym>GNU</acronym> General Public License, Version 2. On
	Debian systems, the full text of this license can be found in the
	file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.</para>
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