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Crawling for Images on the WWW

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Search engines are useful because they allow the user to find information of interest from the World-Wide Web. These engines use a crawler to gather information from Web sites. However, with the explosive growth of the World-Wide Web it is not possible for any crawler to gather all the information available. Therefore, an efficient crawler tries to only gather important and popular information. In this paper we discuss a crawler that uses various heuristics to find sections of the WWW that are rich sources of images. This crawler is designed for AMORE, a Web search engine that allows the user to retrieve images from the Web by specifying relevant keywords or a similar image.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Ca, 94305, USA

    Junghoo Cho

  2. C&C Research Lab, NEC USA, 110 Rio Robles, San Jose, CA, 95134, USA

    Sougata Mukherjea

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  1. Computer Science Department, Leiden University, Niels Bohrweg 1, 2333 CA, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Dionysius P. Huijsmans

  2. Research Institute Computer Science, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Arnold W. M. Smeulders

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Cho, J., Mukherjea, S. (1999). Crawling for Images on the WWW. In: Huijsmans, D.P., Smeulders, A.W.M. (eds) Visual Information and Information Systems. VISUAL 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1614. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48762-X_26

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