Region-based image retrieval: Fast coarse segmentation and fine color description

Journal of Visual Languages and Computing

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 69-95

  Fauqueur, Julien ^a   Boujemaa, Nozha ^a  

^a INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Color distribution distance; Color quantization; Fine color representation; Image retrieval; Region description; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346973275     PISSN: 1045926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvlc.2003.08.002     Document Type: Article

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