Assessing agreement between human and machine clusterings of image databases

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1905-1919

  Squire, David McG ^a   Pun, Thierry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Clustering reliability; Databases; Expected agreement; Image similarity; Perceptual distance; Query by content

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS;

IMAGE SIMILARITY; MACHINE CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032317554     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(98)00028-4     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. 1. T. Kato, Database architecture for content-based image retrieval, SPIE Image Storage and Retrieval Systems, 1662, 112-123 (1992).
2. 2. M. Flickner, H. Sawhney, W. Niblack, J. Ashley, Q. Huang, B. Dom, M. Gorkani, J. Hafner, D. Lee, D. Petkovic, D. Steele and P. Yanker, Query by image and video content: The QBIC system, IEEE Comp. 28(9) 23-32 (1995).
3. 3. R. Milanese, D. Squire and T. Pun, Correspondence analysis and hierarchical indexing for content-based image retrieval, P. Delogne, ed., IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, Vol. III, pp. 859-862, Lausanne, Switzerland (1996).
4. 4. A. Pentland, R. W. Picard and S. Sclaroff, Photobook: tools for content-based manipulation of image databases, Int. J. Comput. Vision, 13(3) (June 1996).
5. 5. A. K. Jain and A. Vailaya, Image retrieval using color and shape, Pattern Recognition 29(8), 1233-1244, (1996).
6. 6. M. S. Lew, D. P. Huijsmans and D. Denteneer, Content based image retrieval: KLT, projections, or templates, Image Database and Multimedia Search, A.W.M. Smeulders and R. Jain (eds), Amsterdam, The Netherlands (August 1996), pp. 27-34.
7. 7. A. Soffer and H. Samet, Handling multiple instances of symbols in pictorial queries by image similarity, Image Database and Multimedia Search, A.W.M. Smeulders and R. Jain (eds), Amsterdam, The Netherlands (August 1996), 51-58.
8. 8. R. W. Picard, Toward a visual thesaurus, Technical Report 358, MIT Media Laboratory Perceptual Computing Section, 20 Ames St., Cambridge MA 02139. (1995).
9. 9. F. Mokhtarian and S. A. J. Kittler, Efficient and robust retrieval by shape content through curvature scale space, Image Database and Multimedia Search, A.W.M. Smeulders and R. Jain (eds), Amsterdam, The Netherlands (August 1996), pp. 35-42.
10. 10. T. Pun and D. Squire, Statistical structuring of pictorial databases for content-based image retrieval systems, Pattern Recognition Lett. 17, 299-1310, (1996).
11. 11. S. Sclaroff, Encoding deformable shape categories for efficient content-based search, Image Database and Mutimedia Search, A.W.M. Smeulders and R. Jain (eds), Amsterdam, The Netherlands (August 1996), pp. 107-114.
12. 12. T. P. Minka and R. W. Picard, Interactive learning using a "society of models", IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 447-452.
13. 13. J. J. Bartko and W. T. Carpenter, On the methods and theory of reliability, The J. Nervous Mental Dis. 163(5), 307-317, (1976).
14. 14. G. Dunn, Design and Analysis of Reliability studies; The Statistical Evaluation of Measurement Errors, Oxford University Press, 200 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 (1989).
15. 15. M. Heath, S. Sarkar and T. Sanocki and K. Bowyer, Comparison of Edge Detectors: A Methodology and Initial Study, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. pp. 143-148.
16. 16. K. Han and S.-H. Myaeng, Image organization and retrieval with automatically constructed feature vectors, H.-P. Frei, D. Harman, P. Schäuble and R. Wilkinson, eds, Proc 19th Annual Int. ACM SIGIR Conf. on Research and Development in Information Retrieval pp. 157-165, Zürich, Switzerland (August 1996).
17. 17. D. Fowler, The binomial coefficient function, American Mathematical Monthly, 103(1), 1-17 (1996).
18. 18. E. Diday, G. Govaert, Y. Lechevallier and J. Sidi, Clustering in pattern recognition, J.-C. Simon and R. Haralick, eds. Digital Image Processing, pp. 19-58, D. Reidel Publishers, Dordrecht (1981).
19. 19. L. Lebart, A. Morineau and J.-P. Fénelon, Traitement des données statistiques; méthodes et programmes, Dunod, Paris (1979).