Indexing and retrieval of images by spatial constraints

Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 291-320

  Ahmad, Imran ^a   Grosky, William I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEARBORN   (United States)

Author keywords

Content based retrieval; Image database; Image indexing; Spatial similarity based retrieval; Symbolic image

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE UNDERSTANDING; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); PATTERN MATCHING;

IMAGE DATABASE; IMAGE INDEXING; SPATIAL SIMILARITY BASED RETRIEVAL; SYMBOLIC IMAGE;

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0041818407     PISSN: 10473203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1047-3203(03)00039-7     Document Type: Article

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