We describe a new projectively invariant representation of disjoint contour groups which is suitable for shape-based retrieval from an image database. It consists of simultaneous ...
Most image retrieval systems perform a linear search over the database to find the closest match to a query. However, databases usually exhibit a natural grouping structure into c...
: Managing image data in a database system using metadata has been practiced since the last two decades. However, describing an image fully and adequately with metadata is practica...
This paper presents a novel schema to address the polysemy of visual words in the widely used bag-of-words model. As a visual word may have multiple meanings, we show it is possib...
A novel approach to scene categorization is proposed. Similar to previous works of [11, 15, 3, 12], we introduce an intermediate space, based on a low dimensional semantic "t...