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diff --git a/kmrml/README b/kmrml/README deleted file mode 100644 index d17322df..00000000 --- a/kmrml/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,95 +0,0 @@ -tdeio_mrml and mrml_part - -Carsten Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@kde.org> 2001/05/03 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -These are the sources for an mrml tdeioslave and an accompanying KPart. - - -How does it work in Konqueror? -============================== -For now, the MrmlPart is rather a proof of concept, than a full blown -MRML client. - -You can start the MrmlPart by entering an appropriate URL into Konqueror, -e.g. mrml://user:pass@host.domain:port -user, pass and domain are optional, so if you're running a server locally -yourself, you can enter mrml://localhost to make Konqueror show the -MrmlPart. If you don't have a running GIFT-server, you can try out -mrml://viper.unige.ch:12790 as an example. Then, Konqueror will try to -connect the server at the given URL and show you a list of -image-collections the server has available. You can specify the number -of images a query should return and you can hit the Search-button -to actually start the query. If you don't give an image as example for -the query, it will return random images from the collection. - -Shortly after hitting the Search-button, you will see a list of images -as thumbnails. Below every image is a small rectangle showing the -similarity of the image with the example image(s). The longer the -rectangle, the better the match. - -Even easier than entering the mrml URL is right-clicking on an image -in Konqueror and selecting "Search for similar images..." in the context -menu. This will open up a new Konqueror window where the query will start -automatically. By default, this will try to contact a local server, i.e -mrml://localhost. You can configure different servers in the KControl -Module (System -> Advanced Search). The last chosen server will be used -for those queries. - -Note that a remote server surely can't access an image from your home -direcory though. I have to think a little bit about the usability of -this :) The greatest use of this is when you've indexed your files -and running an own GIFT server anyway. Ideally, the server could be -started on demand, when a query comes up. - - -MrmlPart: -========= - This KPart makes use of the mrml ioslave to provide a full MRML -client. MRML, Multimedia Retrieval Markup Language (see -http://www.mrml.net) is a means to query CBIR (Content Based Image -Retrieval) servers. An OpenSource server is the GIFT (GNU Image -Finding Tool), see www.mrml.net for downloading the GIFT. - -You can query for images by choosing one or more "example" images. -The server will search for images that have similarities to the -example(s) you gave. Queries can be refined by specifying relevance, -i.e. by including and excluding parts of the previous search result. - - -mrml ioslave: -============= - Basically this is not much more than a slave for asynchronous -transport of "data". With the URL, you can specify the user, password -and port, as well as the url of the server to connect to. - -The data exchange of client <-> slave is done via metaData, with an -"mrml_data" key. The data that the slave sends to the client is sent -in one big chunk, after all the data has arrived at the slave. This -could be made configurable later. - -With a little tuning, one could turn this into a generic slave -which can transport any kind of data. - -[mrmlsearch] -This little baby is called from Konqueror's popupmenu, when you hit -"Search for similar images...". This program simply gets the URLs -from Konqueror and creates a query of the form -mrml://host.com/?relevant=url1;url2;url3;url4.... -It will use the currently selected host in the KControl module -System -> Advanced Search to perform the query. - -mrmlsearch will then invoke "kfmclient openURL query" to start open -a new Konqueror window and perform the query. - - -Thanks go to Wolfgang Müller <Wolfgang.Mueller@cui.unige.ch> for his -work on the GIFT and for making me write this frontend :) I really -had a WOW-effect about the GIFT, when MrmlPart returned the first -query results. - -New versions of this package can be found at -http://devel-home.kde.org/~pfeiffer/kmrml/ -See http://www.mrml.net for downloading the GIFT and more information. - -Have fun, - Carsten Pfeiffer |