最早成功应用基于内容的图像检索技术的是IBM的QBIC系统。这个系统是为一个俄国博物馆制作的绘画作品查询系统。QBIC系统的网站为IBM的QBIC系统。除了IBM的QBIC系统之外,比较著名的系统还包括UIUC大学的MARS系统 、MIT的Photobook 、 UC Berkeley的Digital Library Project ,以及Columbia大学的VisualSEEk 等。 系统名称发布时间 开发组织文献ADL 1995 University of California, Santa Barbara AltaVistaPhotofinder 1997 DEC Research LabAltaVista Company AMORE 1997 C & C Research Laboratories NEC USA, Inc. ASSERT 1999 The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University BDLP 1996 University of California, Berkeley Blobworld 1999 Computer Science Division,University of California, Berkeley CANDID 1995 Computer Research and Applications Group,Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA C-bird 1998 Developer School of Computing Science, SimonFraser University, Burnaby, ., Canada CBVQ 1995 Developer Image and Advanced Television Lab,Columbia university, NY Chabot 1995 Developer Department of Computer Science,University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA CHROMA 2000 Developer School of Computing, Engineeringand Technology, University of Sunderland, UK Circus 1997 AUDIOVISUAL COMMUNICATIONS LCAV, IC, EPFL Compass 2000 Developer Centre for Scientific and TechnologicalResearch, Trento, Italy Diogenes 2000 Department of EECS, University of Illinoisat Chicago DrawSearch 1999 Developer Department of Electrical andElectronic Engineering, Technical University of Bari Excalibur VisualRetrievalWare 未知 Excalibur Technologies FIDS 1999 Department of Computer Science and Engineering,University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA FIR 1997 Developed by Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics,Darmstadt, Germany, in association with Txt IngegneriaInformatica . (Italy), Giunti Multimedia Srl (Italy), EpsilonSoftware (Greece),and Kino TV & Movie Productions . (Greece),as part of the Esprit IV project FORMULA. FOCUS 1997 Developer Department of Computer Science, Universityof Massachusetts, Amherst, MA FRIP 2001 Yonsei University, Korea ImageFinder 未知 Attrasoft Inc ImageMiner 1997 Technologie-Zentrum Informatik, Univerity of Bremen, Germany ImageRETRO 1999 Department of Computer Science, University of Amsterdam,The Netherlands ImageRover 1997 Department of Computer Science, Boston University, MA ImageScape 1997 Department of Computer Science, Leiden University,The Netherlands iPURE 2000 IBM India Research Lab, New Delhi, India Jacob 1996 Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab,University of Palermo, Italy KIWI 2001 INSA Lyon, France LCPD 1996 Department of Computer Science, Leiden University,The Netherlands MARS 1997 Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, further developedat Department of Information andComputer Science, University of California at Irvine, CA. MetaSEEk 1998 Image and Advanced Television Lab, Columbia University, NY, USA. MIDSS 1997 Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, Indiana MIR 1995 Center of Excellence for DocumentAnalysis and Recognition,University at Buffalo, NY, USA. MUSE 未知 Computer Science and Engineering, Florida Atlantic University NETRA 1997 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,University of California, Santa Barbara, CA PARISS 2000 未知 Photobook 1996 Vision and Modeling Group, MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge,MA Picasso 1997 Visual Information Processing Lab, University of Florence, Italy PicHunter 2000 NEC Research Institute, Princeton, NJ, USA PicSOM 2000 Laboratory of Computer and Information Sciences,Helsinki University of Technology, Finland PicToSeek 2000 Department of Computer Science, University of Amsterdam,The Netherlands QBIC 1993 IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA Quicklook2 2001 CNR Institute of Multimedia Information Technologies,Milan, Italy RETIN 2001 ENSEA/University of Cergy-Pontoise, France Shoebox 2001 AT&T Laboratories, Cambridge, UK. The development was startedat Olivetti and Oracle ResearchLaboratory. SIMBA 2001 Institute for Pattern Recognition and Image Processing,Freiburg University, Germany SMURF 2002 Center for Geometry, Imaging, and Virtual Environments,Institute of Information and ComputingSciences,Utrecht University, The Netherlands SQUID 1996 Centre for Vision, Speech, and Signal Processing,University of Surrey, UK Surfimage 1998 INRIA, Rocquencourt, France SYNAPSE 1999 Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, University ofMassachusetts, Amherst, MA TODAI 1996 Electrical Engineering Department, EPFL, Switzerland, and laterthe Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Halmstad University, Sweden Viper 2000 Centre Universitaire d’Informatique, University of Genova,Switzerland VIR ImageEngine 1996 Virage Inc. VisualSEEk 1997 Image and Advanced Television Lab, Columbia University, NY VP ImageRetrieval System 1995 National Center for Science Information Systems,University of Tokyo, Japan WebSEEk 1997 Image and Advanced Television Lab, Columbia University, NY WebSeer 1996 Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago, Illinois WISE 1997 Department of Computer Science, Stanford Univerity (该统计来源于文献Content-Based Image Retrieval Systems: A Survey )