Image Theft Detection with Self-Organising Maps

In this paper an application of the TS-SOM variant of the self-organising map algorithm on the problem of copyright theft detection for bitmap images is shown. The algorithm facilitates the location of originals of copied, damaged or modified images within a database of hundreds of thousands of stock images. The method is shown to outperform binary decision tree indexing with invariant frame detection.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: ICANN
• Authors: Philip Prentis, Mats Sjöberg, Markus Koskela, Jorma Laaksonen
• Keywords: Copyright Theft Detection, ICANN 2009, Invariant Frame Detection, Self-organising Map Algorithm