Hi! I'm working in my spare time on Lire, a content based image retrieval library (searching for similar looking images in other words, see http://www.semanticmetadata.net/lire) based on Lucene.
As the cbir features are medium sized integer vectors I put them into fields, and read them with the IndexReader within a linear search through the whole index for matching: As soon as a query is issued (which is also an integer vector) I go through every doc, get the corresponding feature vector and calculate the distance (L1 or L2, depending on the type of feature). Do you have any idea if and how I could implement a linear search (L1/L2 distance on integer vectors) using scorers, so that filters and other features can be used? regards, Mathias ps. Yes I know that this is in general easy to implement within a database, which I have done for oracle, mysql and derby .... but people do want the lucene implementation and believe it or not: Lucene is super fast for linear search -> THX to the lucene team ;) -- ' ' ' ' ' ' Mathias Lux o/ ' \o [EMAIL PROTECTED] /-' -\ skype://dermotte, icq # 1988617 /\ /\ http://www.SemanticMetadata.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]