Information retrieval (IR) research has been very active over the last decades to develop approaches that allow machine indexing to significantly improve indexing practice in lib...
Traditional approaches for content-based image querying typically compute a single signature for each image based on color histograms, texture, wavelet transforms etc., and return...
Text detection is fundamental to video information retrieval and indexing. Existing methods cannot handle well those texts with different contrast or embedded in a complex backgro...
Content-based retrieval (CBIR) methods in medical databases have been designed to support specific tasks, such as retrieval of digital mammograms or 3D MRI images. These methods c...
Conventional image processing algorithms used to compare images are very timeconsuming, making them inappropriate for use in searching for an image in a huge collection of images ...
Caetano Traina Jr., Agma J. M. Traina, Rildo R. do...