Retrieval of Images using Rich-region Descriptions

Journal of Visual Languages and Computing

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 303-321

  Cinque, L ^a   Lecca, F ^a   Levialdi, S ^a   Tanimoto, S ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Content query, image database, segmentation, regions, matching, similarity, distance, user interface, rich region description.

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346423475     PISSN: 1045926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jvlc.2000.0161     Document Type: Article

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