Spatial template extraction for image retrieval by region matching

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1404-1415

  Hsieh, Jun Wei ^a   Grimson, W Eric L ^b  

^a YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Image retrieval; Region matching; Spatial template

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC INDEXING; CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PATTERN MATCHING; SEMANTICS;

SPATIAL TEMPLATE EXTRACTION; TEMPLATE ANALYSIS ALGORITHM; TEMPLATE EXTRACTION ALGORITHM;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 0242468071     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2003.816013     Document Type: Article

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