Methods Employed

This chapter points out certain technologies that are often applied in a CBIR system. A prototypical retrieval system has been developed in order to evaluate the research hypothesis. Following common principles of information hiding, the software is designed to have multiple layers of abstraction. The top layer needs to be user friendly and also has the task to translate human understandable concepts into machine readable commands. As every user has a different level of expertise, the interface complexity should be adapted accordingly.