Retrieving information from heterogeneous data sources in a flexible manner and within a single (database) framework is still a challenge. In this paper we present several extensi...
Providing a user with an effective image search engine has been a very active research area. A search by an object model is considered to be one of the most desirable and yet difï...
: In this paper we analyze some existing tools and approaches to image data modeling and we propose an Object-Oriented Image Data (OOID) model. It can be applied on a wide variety ...
Two fast illumination invariant image retrieval methods for scenes comprising textured objects with variable illumination are introduced. Both methods are based on texture gradien...
Large quantities of documents in the Internet and digital libraries are simply scanned and archived in image format, many of which are packed in PDF files. The word search tool pr...