Our objective is to improve the performance of keyword based image search engines by re-ranking their baseline results. To this end, we address three limitations of existing searc...
We present data representations, distance measures and organizational structures for fast and efficient retrieval of similar shapes in image databases. Using the Hough Transform w...
Michail Vlachos, Zografoula Vagena, Philip S. Yu, ...
Researchers in the data mining area frequently have to spend significant portion of their time on preprocessing the data in order to apply their algorithms to real-world datasets...
Zhaoqi Chen, Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Sharad Mehrotr...
In this paper, an image retrieval methodology suited for search in large collections of heterogeneous images is presented. The proposed approach employs a fully unsupervised segme...
Vasileios Mezaris, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Michael G...
M-tree is a dynamic access method suitable to index generic “metric spaces”, where the function used to compute the distance between any two objects satisfies the positivity, ...
Paolo Ciaccia, Marco Patella, Fausto Rabitti, Pave...