From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):
content-based information retrieval
CBIR
CBVIR
content-based visual information retrieval
QBIC
query by image content
<image, algorithm> (CBIR, query by image content, QBIC,
content-based visual information retrieval, CBVIR) A general
term for methods using image analysis to try to identify
objects and features in images to allow them to indexed and
searched.
This contrasts with the use of image metadata such as
keywords or tags associated with (and possibly stored in) the
image.
[IEEE Computer, September 1995].
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