Automatic image annotation is a promising solution to enable semantic image retrieval via keywords. In this paper, we propose a multi-level approach to annotate the semantics of n...
Dominant color descriptor (DCD) is one of the color descriptors proposed by MPEG-7 that has been extensively used for image retrieval. Among the color descriptors, DCD describes t...
Nai-Chung Yang, Wei-Han Chang, Chung Ming Kuo, Tsi...
This paper proposes a new image representation scheme for database indexing. The application domain is \image-based" indexing as opposed to \content-based" indexing. In ...
Abstract. Most CBIR systems use low-level visual features for representation and retrieval of images. Generally such methods suffer from the problems of high-dimensionality leadin...
Statistical methods, such as independent component analysis, have been successful in learning local low-level features from natural image data. Here we extend these methods for le...