Most systems for content based image retrieval (CBIR) employ low level image features as a similarity measure. The problem of CBIR systems is that they are a “black box” to th...
Image annotations allow users to access a large image database with textual queries. There have been several studies on automatic image annotation utilizing machine learning techn...
Near-duplicate image detection is a critical task in copyright protection. More challenging than the common similarity search, this task requires not only the retrieval of the top...
One of the difficulties of Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) is the gap between high-level concepts and low-level image features, e.g., color and texture. Relevance feedback wa...
Medical visual information retrieval has been a very active research area over the past ten years as an increasing amount of images is produced digitally and made available in the ...