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[Project Name] SAPIR [Home Page] sysrun.haifa.il.ibm.com/sapir/ [Short Description] 
SAPIR extends the power of web searches beyond centralized text and metadata searches to include distributed audio-visual content. Today, Web searches are dominated by search giants such as Google, Yahoo, or MSN that deploy a centralized approach to indexing and utilize text-only indexes enriched by page rank algorithms. Consequently, while it is possible to search for audio-visual content, the search is limited to associated text and metadata annotations. Supporting real content-based, audio-visual search requires media-specific understanding and extremely high CPU utilization, which would not scale in today’s centralized solutions. SAPIR aims at breaking this technological barrier by developing a large-scale, distributed P2P architecture that will make it possible to search audio-visual content using the query-by-example paradigm. Considering that a picture is worth a thousand words, an image taken by a cell phone can be used to find information. For example, search for a monument using its photo or search for a full song using its melody. Combining these search hints with optional metadata annotations and user and social networking contexts will provide the next level of search capabilities with precise retrieved results.
FP7 Projects: European Future Internet Portal - the information hub for European R&D activities on the Internet of the future
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