Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Example Code
The AMPlab at Berkeley has some
example code
to do personalized movie recommenda-
tions based on collaborative filtering.
Hadoop Image Processing Interface (HIPI)
License
BSD Simplified
Activity
Moderate
Purpose
Image Processing
Official Page
Hadoop Integration API Compatible
Image processing is a vastly overloaded term. It can mean something as simple as “cleaning
up” your image by putting it into focus and making the boundaries more distinct. It can also
mean determining what is in your image, or scene analysis. For example, does the image of a
lung X-ray show a tumor? Does the image of cells collected in a Pap smear indicate potential
cervical cancer? Or it can mean deciding whether a fingerprint image matches a particular
image or is similar to one in a set of images.
HIPI is an image-processing package under development at the University of Virginia. While
the documentation is sketchy, the main use is the examination of a collection of images and
determining their similarity or dissimilarity. This package seems to assume a knowledge of
image processing and specific technologies such as the exchangeable image file format
(EXIF). As this is a university project, its future is unknown, but there seems to be a resur-
gence of activity expected in 2015, including Spark integration.
