FIRE: Fractal indexing with robust extensions for image databases

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 373-384

  Distasi, Riccardo ^a   Nappi, Michele ^a   Tucci, Maurizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Content based retrieval; Invariance; Iterated functions systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECODING; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE QUALITY; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

FRACTAL ENCODING; FRACTAL INDEXING; IMAGE DATABASES; IMAGE INDEXING; IMAGE TRANSFORMATIONS; ITERATED FUNCTION SYSTEMS;

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0038530904     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2003.811041     Document Type: Article

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