DIS DIStributed tributed CO CO ntent-based ntent-based Visual isual I nformation nformation R etrieval etrieval Ka Cheung Sia, Cheuk Hang Ng, Chi Hang Chan, Siu Kong Chan, Lai Yi Ho Multimedia Information Processing Lab - http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~miplab Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong K {kcsia, chng, chchan, skchan3, lyho} @ cse.cuhk.edu.hk VIR R function in Gnutella network addition to filename search nloadable plug-in module based your needs view in thumbnails that saves ur time w pad allowing you to draw your n query image tribute to the Web users eal geographical location of source [1] The Gnutella project http://www.gnutella.com [2] The LimeWire project http://www.limewire.com [3] C. H. Ng and K. C. Sia, Peer Clustering and Firework Quer In Poster Proceedings of WWW 2002 Selected Reference Selected Reference Download images Plug-in management Image search & Preview Connection Manager Packet Router Plug-in Manager HTTP Agent Feature Extractor Image Indexer DISCOVIR Network Shared Collection DISCOVIR Core DISCOVIR User Interface WWW Image Manager Architecture of DISCOVIR The P2P The WWW tributions ich queries compared to existing filename search educe unnecessary download by thumbnail preview functionality Everywhere contributions bute and balance queries workload from the Web among peers d workload on query gateway compared to existing methods f Web-based queries d query image to DISCOVIR gateway ate available DISCOVIR peer through bootstrap server egate query and result collection task to DISCOVIR peers ate HTML for web user to download directly from peers