Human-Centered Intelligent Web Based Missing Person Clothing Identification System

In the last chapter we outlined relevance feedback as one of the methods for developing user-centered multimedia applications. On the other hand, researchers in the computational intelligence or soft computing community have been recently trying to develop intelligent applications which humanize computational intelligence technologies (Takagi 2001, 2002). In this chapter we describe an intelligent web multimedia system which employs relevance feedback as a means of assisting an Internet user (relative or friend of a missing person) to interactively identify the clothing of a missing person. The system can be used by the law enforcement authorities, like the police to identify the type, color and design of the shirt worn by a missing person.