In this paper we explore the effectiveness of three clustering methods used to perform word image indexing. The three methods are: the Self-Organazing Map (SOM), the Growing Hiera...
Abstract-- This paper presents a novel approach using combined features to retrieve images containing specific objects, scenes or buildings. The content of an image is characterize...
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...
Human visual recognition is based largely on shape, yet effectively using shapes in natural image retrieval is a challenging task. Most existing methods are based on the geometric...
A great number of documents are scanned and archived in the form of digital images in digital libraries, to make them available and accessible in the Internet. Information retriev...