FIRST: Fractal Indexing and Retrieval SysTem for Image Databases

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 1998, Pages 1019-1031

  Nappi, M ^a   Polese, G ^a   Tortora, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Content based retrieval; Contractive function; Discrete fourier transform; Iterated functions systems; R* tree

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FRACTALS; ITERATIVE METHODS;

CONTRACTIVE FUNCTIONS; IMAGE DATABASES; IMAGE INDEXING;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0032299828     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0262-8856(98)00084-5     Document Type: Article

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