Analyzing scenery images by monotonic tree

Multimedia Systems

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 495-511

  Song, Yuqing ^a   Zhang, Aidong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEARBORN   (United States)

Author keywords

Annotation; Content based image retrieval; Image feature extraction; Monotonic tree; Semantics retrieval

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS;

LOW LEVEL FEATURES; MONOTONIC TREE; SEMANTICS RETRIEVAL;

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0038384577     PISSN: 09424962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00530-002-0067-y     Document Type: Article

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