FIRE Homepage

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This is the homepage of FIRE, the Flexible Image Retrieval Engine.

Note that Thomas Deselaers, will not work at RWTH Aachen University from January 2009 and thus this website is not maintained any more.

Should there be any news regarding FIRE, they will be published here.

FIRE Screenshot

Introduction

FIRE is an image retrieval system developed as part of the diploma thesis of Thomas Deselaers. Later, large parts were rewritten to make it more easily maintainable.

Contributors include (in no particular order):

Daniel Keysers (initial version/lots of help/...)
Andre Hegerath (sparse histograms, ...)
Tobias Weyand (combination with text retrieval, ...)
Helga Velroyen (reimplementation and debugging of some feature extractors, ...)
Jens Forster (on demand feature loading)
Christian Terboven (openMP parallelization)
Fabian Schwahn (upload of query images and querying with subimages)
Christian Kofler (FireWatch)
Piotr Boninski (C# library to access a FIRE server)
Tobias Gass (...)
insert your name here by contributing

Sources/Downloads

FIRE is available under the terms of the GNU Public License.

Download Latest Version: 2.2
2008-05-07: FIRE 2.2 released
A new version of FIRE with restructured source code and new Makefile was released.
Download it here. Install instructions for FIRE 2.2 are also contained in the archive.

Contributions/Addons

FireWatch

Christian Kofler from the Image Understanding and Pattern Recognition Group in Keyserslautern has created a small GUI for FIRE called FireWatch. You can grep it from their site. (local mirror). FireWatch already supports the submission of images and to select regions from images for query which is not yet supported by the current version of FIRE. This feature has been developed by the Image Understanding and Pattern Recognition Group in Kaiserslautern and will soon be included in the main FIRE.

Screenshots of FireWatch

C# library for the FIRE protocol

Piotr Boninski from Warsaw University of Technology has implemented a C# library to access FIRE servers. All library stuff is in FireBrowser namespace, test application is in FireTester, the code is really small, so all files are in one folder (lib files are with *is* prefix) You need C# 2 compiler because of generics and partial classes (p. c in test app only) The library does not support all fire features, but feel free to enhance it :) Available from: http://www.ire.pw.edu.pl/~pboninsk/FireTester.zip

FIRE Mailinglist

We have migrated the FIRE mailinglist to google groups: If you are interested, please feel free to join.