VGG Image Search Engine

VGG Image Search Engine is an open source program that lets anyone make a set of pictures searchable by regions inside the images, rather than only by whole-image labels. It is listed on the pages of Information Engineering at the University of Oxford.

What VGG Image Search Engine offers

• Region-based search — lets a user look for part of an image across a collection.
• Open source access — free for anybody to adopt for their own image sets.
• Collection indexing — turns an existing library of pictures into something that can be queried.

Who it works with

Researchers, archives and anyone holding an image collection they want to search. The host group, Information Engineering, is a research division of Oxford's Department of Engineering Science, covering machine learning, computer vision and mobile robotics.

Key facts

• Based in: Oxford, United Kingdom
• Host group founded: 1985, as the Robotics Research Group
• Host institution: University of Oxford