Similarity search in image database is commonly implemented as nearest-neighbor search in a feature space of the images. For that purpose, a large number of different features as ...
In this paper, we present a new and robust shape descriptor, which can be efficiently used to quickly prune a search for similar shapes in a large image database. The proposed sha...
—This paper presents a novel hybrid method for content based visual information retrieval (CBIR) that combines shape analysis of objects in image with their automatic indexing by...
The retrieval of videos of interest from large video collections is a main open problem which calls for the definition of new video content characterization techniques in term of ...
This paper proposes a semantic overlay based on the small world phenomenon that facilitates efficient search for information retrieval in unstructured P2P systems. In the semantic...