Desktop Images as Target of Information Retrieval

Abstract

Recently, major information for human comes and go through computer, and recording the activity on computer can be regarded as a kind of life log of human. Unlike life log in video form, the life log of computer records are rich in text information. This make it possible to handle the record more effectively than video. This report presents a prototype system for retrieval the captured image of desk top of computer. This report also discusses various characteristic of captured image collection compared with text collection. Finally, this report presents some situation where the proposed system will be useful.