Most of current fingerprint indexing schemes utilize features based on global textures and minutiae structures. To extend the existing technology of feature extraction, this paper...
Abstract-- We aim for content-based image retrieval of textured objects in natural scenes under varying illumination and viewing conditions. To achieve this, image retrieval is bas...
Texture has been recognized as an important visual primitive in image analysis. A widely used texture descriptor, which is part of the MPEG-7 standard, is that computed using mult...
Users of image databases often prefer to retrieve relevant images by categories. Unfortunately, images are usually indexed by low-level features like color, texture and shape, whi...