4. A system comprising: an image segmentation system including: (a) a storage device having a plurality of different feature extraction techniques stored therein; (b) an image segmentation processor in communication with said storage device, said image segmentation processor adapted to execute at least each of the plurality of different image segmentation algorithms stored in said storage device; an object classifier adapted to receive one or more image segments from said image segmentation processor and to apply a tag to each object in each of the image segments wherein said tag comprises a source identifier (ID) field, a media type field, a date field, a time field, an object type field and a characteristics field and wherein the media type field specifies that the media is one of a plurality of disparate types of media including at least: image media, video media and audio media; an object repository adapted to receive object tags from said object classifier; a search engine coupled to said object repository; and a user interface coupled to said search engine.
4. A system comprising: an image segmentation system including: (a) a storage device having a plurality of different feature extraction techniques stored therein; (b) an image segmentation processor in communication with said storage device, said image segmentation processor adapted to execute at least each of the plurality of different image segmentation algorithms stored in said storage device; an object classifier adapted to receive one or more image segments from said image segmentation processor and to apply a tag to each object in each of the image segments wherein said tag comprises a source identifier (ID) field, a media type field, a date field, a time field, an object type field and a characteristics field and wherein the media type field specifies that the media is one of a plurality of disparate types of media including at least: image media, video media and audio media; an object repository adapted to receive object tags from said object classifier; a search engine coupled to said object repository; and a user interface coupled to said search engine. 5. The system of claim 4 further comprising a tag repository and wherein the tag applied to each object by said object classifier is stored in said tag repository.