Image retrieval: Current techniques, promising directions, and open issues

Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 39-62

  Rui, Yong ^a   Huang, Thomas S ^a   Chang, Shih Fu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

IMAGE RETRIEVAL; MULTIDIMENSIONAL INDEXING;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0032663356     PISSN: 10473203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jvci.1999.0413     Document Type: Article

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