Content-based interactive image retrieval from Java enabled mobile devices

Content-based image retrieval from a mobile device in large image database is challenging. In this paper we present a client-server architecture where a server is running on a personal computer and a client on the device. The client sends content-based query request to the server and the server performs an interactive content-based query and sends the query results to the client. In the query a user of the mobile device define a time interval after that he wants to see the query results. The server generates the query result after the given time. Furthermore the user of the device can get the updated query results at any time during the query operation. This interactive query can avoid un-wanted progressing query results and thus reduce the server query time and memory.