Statistical shape features for content-based image retrieval

Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 187-198

  Brandt, Sami ^a   Laaksonen, Jorma ^a   Oja, Erkki ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Content based image retrieval; Feature extraction; Relevance feedback; Statistical shape description

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL METHODS; VECTORS;

CARTESIAN COORDINATE; CONTENT-BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL; EDGE HISTOGRAMS; EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE; FOURIER-TRANSFORM-BASED FEATURES; OBJECT SEGMENTATION; POLAR COORDINATE PLANES; STATISTICAL SHAPE FEATURES;

IMAGE RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0036762272     PISSN: 09249907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020689721567     Document Type: Article

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