Context-dependent segmentation and matching in image databases

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 86-109

  Greenspan, Hayit ^a   Dvir, Guy ^a   Rubner, Yossi ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Rubner Technology Consulting   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PATTERN MATCHING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EARTH MOVER DISTANCE (EMD); IMAGE REPRESENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0346686127     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2003.08.004     Document Type: Article

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