IBM Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval System

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Platform requirements

Operating systems: Windows® XP

Hardware: Apache HTTP Web server (with configuration file modified to support the IBM system feature)

Software:

• Web browser (for the search tool)
• Optional: For all video formats other than still images and MPEG1 and MPEG2 videos, download FFmpeg.exe and copy to the installation folder (for example: C:\Program Files\Imars\bin) (for details, see the "Optional Software Installation" section in IMARS Guide for alphaWorks.pdf).

Installation instructions

1. Set up the HTTP server, as follows:
   1. Install the Apache HTTP Web server into a directory of your choice (hereafter referred to as [APACHEROOT]. On Windows PCs, it is usually C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation.
   2. Configure the http.conf file in the [APACHEROOT]/Apache2.2/conf/ directory as described in IMARS Guide for alphaWorks.pdf.
   3. Restart the Apache server.
2. Download imars.zip (~8.6 MB unzipped) and unzip to a directory of your choice (such as C:\Program Files\Imars\ (hereafter referred to as <DIR>).
3. Download classifiers.zip (~6 MB unzipped) and unzip the file to <DIR>/bin.
4. Optional: Download colors.zip (~95 MB unzipped), domains.zip (~121 MB unzipped), and peopleobjects.zip (~116 MB unzipped), and unzip the files to <DIR>/bin/classifiers.
5. Navigate to <DIR>/bin/.
6. Read the license agreement in the /license subfolder.
7. Run Imars.exe (indexing tool) in <DIR>/bin folder.
8. Specify the input search directory and the results directory (in sync with http.conf settings).
9. Set Options, Images, Video, Metadata, Classifiers, Clusters, and Features tab in the indexing tool, or use default values.
10. Click on the Start button. After cataloging is finished, a link to the collection will pop up in your default Web browser (or it can be accessed through http://localhost/imars).

Please see the IMARS Guide for alphaWorks.pdf file for further information.

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