MUFIN: A Multi-feature Indexing Network

Abstract

By exploiting and extending the research achievements in metric searching technology over the last ten years, MUFIN proves the expected extensibility and scalability properties of this technology. The scalability has been demonstrated by an interactive image retrieval system over 280-dimensional vectors, which is one order of magnitude higher than what most of the literature considers to be the dimensionality curse. The system organizes a 100-million image collection, which is two orders of magnitude more than what similar systems use, to the best of our knowledge.