System for Locating Objects of Interest in Image Data Bases

A trainable software system known as JARtool 2.0 has been developed to help scientists find localized objects of interest ("target objects") in image data bases. A human expert implicitly trains the system by using a graphical user interface (see figure) to circle all examples of the target object within a set of images. From the user-provided examples, the system learns an appearance model that can be used to detect the target object in previously unseen images.