A scalable integrated region-based image retrieval system

In this paper, we present a scalable algorithm for indexing and retrieving images based on region segmentation. The method uses statistical clustering on region features and IRM (Integrated Region Matching), a measure developed to evaluate overall similarity between images incorporates properties of all the regions in the images by a regionmatching scheme. The algorithm has been implemented as a part of our experimental SIMPLIcity image retrieval system and tested on large-scale image databases of both generalpurpose images and pathology slides. Experiments have demonstrated that this technique maintains the accuracy of the original system while reducing the matching time significantly.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: ICIP
• Authors: Yanping Du, James Ze Wang
• Keywords: ICIP 2001, Image Processing, Images Incorporates Properties, Large-scale Image Databases, SIMPLIcity Image Retrieval