Combining positive and negative examples in relevance feedback for content-based image retrieval

Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 428-457

  Kherfi, M L ^a   Ziou, D ^a   Bernardi, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b Laboratoires Universitaires Bell   (Canada)

Author keywords

Content based image retrieval; Feature selection; Negative example (NE); Positive example (PE); Relevance feedback

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FEEDBACK; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

FEATURE SELECTION; RELEVANCE FEEDBACK;

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0346778582     PISSN: 10473203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1047-3203(03)00043-9     Document Type: Article

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