Query by dialog: An interactive approach to pictorial querying

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 557-569

  Del Bimbo, Alberto ^a   De Marsico, Maria ^b   Levialdi, Stefano ^b   Peritore, Giuliano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Content based image retrieval; Progressive query; Query by visual example

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

IMAGE RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032093675     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0262-8856(97)00092-9     Document Type: Article

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