Voluminous medical images are generated daily. They are critical assets for medical diagnosis, research, and teaching. To facilitate automatic indexing and retrieval of large medic...
Region-based image retrieval systems aim to improve the effectiveness of content-based search by decomposing each image into a set of “homogeneous” regions. Thus, similarity b...
As many users of imaging technologies, space agencies are rapidly building up massive image databases. A particularity of these databases is that they are made of images with diffe...
Images are amongst the most widely proliferated form of digital information due to affordable imaging technologies and the Web. In such an environment, the use of digital watermar...
A multiple description scalar quantization (MDSQ) based coding system can be regarded as a source coder (quantizer) followed by a channel coder, i.e. the combination of index and ...