Unbalanced region matching based on two-level description for image retrieval

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 565-580

  Dai, Sheng Yang ^a   Zhang, Yu Jin ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Content based image retrieval; Hierarchical segmentation; Spatial descriptor; Two level description; Unbalanced region matching

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR; CONFORMAL MAPPING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LIGHTING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CONTENT-BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL (CBIR); HIERARCHICAL SEGMENTATION; SPATIAL DESCRIPTORS; TWO-LEVEL DESCRIPTION (TLD); UNBALANCED REGION MATCHING (URM);

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL;

EID: 14644403741     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2004.08.022     Document Type: Article

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