Thanks to the recent explosive progress of WWW (World-Wide Web), we can easily access a large number of images from WWW. There
are, however, no established methods to make use of WWW as a large image database. In this paper, we describe an automatic
imagegathering system from WWW, in which we use both keywords and image features. By exploiting some existing keyword-based
search engines and selecting images by their image features, our system obtains, with high accuracy, images that are strongly
related to query keywords. This system has been implemented on a parallel PC cluster, which enables us to gather more than
one hundred images from WWW in about one minute.