Among the vast numbers of images on the web are many duplicates and near-duplicates, that is, variants derived from the same original image. Such near-duplicates appear in many we...
Jun Jie Foo, Justin Zobel, Ranjan Sinha, Seyed M. ...
Similarity search in metric spaces is a general paradigm that can be used in several application fields. It can also be effectively exploited in content-based image retrieval syst...
We present a method for picture detection in document page images, which can come from scanned or camera images, or rendered from electronic file formats. Our method uses OCR to s...
Abstract. Blurring an image with a Gaussian of width σ and considering σ as an extra dimension, extends the image to an Gaussian scale space (GSS) image. In this GSS-image the is...
Nearest neighbour (NN) searches and k nearest neighbour (k-NN) searches are widely used in pattern recognition and image retrieval. An NN (k-NN) search finds the closest object (...