A fast image-gathering system from the World-Wide Web using a PC cluster

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 59-71

  Yanai, Keiji ^a   Shindo, Masaya ^a   Noshita, Kohei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Content based image retrieval; Image gathering; Image search; PC cluster; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA PROCESSING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HTML; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); ONLINE SEARCHING; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); SEARCH ENGINES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

IMAGE GATHERING; KEYWORD-BASED SEARCH;

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0347604355     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2003.08.008     Document Type: Article

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