2008 was the fifth year for the medical image retrieval task of ImageCLEF, one of the most popular tracks within CLEF. Participation continued to increase in 2008. A total of 15 g...
Today's Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) techniques are based on the "k-nearest neighbors" (kNN) model. They retrieve images from a single neighborhood using lo...
The retrieval process in image database systems is inherently different from the retrieval processin traditional (recordoriented)databasesystems.While thelatter canbe consideredan...
A novel indexing and access method, called Affinity Hybrid Tree (AH-Tree), is proposed to organize large image data sets efficiently and to support popular image access mechanisms...
Online image repositories such as Flickr contain hundreds of millions of images and are growing quickly. Along with that the needs for supporting indexing, searching and browsing ...