1. A computerized system comprising: an image locator configured to locate images for analysis within an image repository; and a region of interest classifier that segments one or more images located by the image locator into a plurality of regions of interest, each region of interest containing image content associated with one or more actual features of a physical object in the region of interest, the region of interest classifier being configured to extract one or more physical descriptors from the image content for each region of interest as a physical feature vector, each physical descriptor corresponding to at least one of the one or more actual features of a given physical object in the region of interest associated with the image content.