Unifying textual and visual cues for content-based image retrieval on the World Wide Web

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 86-98

  Sclaroff, Stan ^a   Cascia, Marco La ^a   Sethi, Saratendu ^a   Taycher, Leonid ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Cognex Corporation ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA ACQUISITION; HTML; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES; STATISTICAL METHODS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CONTENT-BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL (CBIR); LATENT SEMANTIC INDEXING;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 0032688345     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cviu.1999.0765     Document Type: Article

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