Most systems for content based image retrieval (CBIR) employ low level image features as a similarity measure. The problem of CBIR systems is that they are a “black box” to th...
Users commonly rely just on scarce textual annotation when their searches for images are semantic or conceptual based. Rich visual information is often thrown away in basic annota...
One of the main goals in Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) is to incorporate shape into the process in a reliable manner. In order to overcome the difficulties of directly obta...
Multidimensional image retrieval (MIR) views an image as a multidimensional object, where each dimension is a channel for retrieval. MIR has the potential of putting at work toget...
Carlo Meghini, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Umberto Stracc...
This demonstration introduces WikiPics, a language-independent image search engine for Wikimedia Commons. Based on the multilingual thesaurus provided by WikiWord, WikiPics allows...