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vitrivr is an open source full-stack content-based multimedia retrieval system originating in the Databases and Information Systems research group as a culmination of various research project and dissertations. Its modular architecture makes it a powerful tool for both, research and people which have to work with large multimedia collections. vitrivr follows a three-tier system architecture with
- a frontend (User Interface)
- a retrieval engine This is the wiki for the retrieval engine!
- a database
as seen in the following architecture diagram.
This is the documentation for vitrivr-engine, the retrieval engine.
We have split the documentation into several parts which we think will help you unerstand how to setup and use vitrivr-engine.
- Getting Started - For those who do not care and just want to follow a guide to setup and use vitrivr-engine.
- Documentation - In-depth documentation of how vitrivr-engine works.
- Example - A more advanced example.
- Development - A guide for developers who either want to contribute towards vitrivr-engine or want to built their own project, using vitrivr-engine.
We kindly ask you to refer to the following paper in publications mentioning or employing vitrivr-engine.
Gasser, R., Arnold, R., Faber, F., Schuldt, H., Waltenspül, R., & Rossetto, L. (2024, January). A New Retrieval Engine for Vitrivr. In International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (pp. 324-331). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-53302-0_28