Human factors in color-based image retrieval: An empirical study on size estimate accuracies

Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 113-131

  Chan, Hock C ^a   Wang, Yue ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Color based image retrieval; Estimate accuracy; Human factors; Laboratory study; Percentage estimate

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

COLOR BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL; ESTIMATE ACCURACY; PERCENTAGE ESTIMATE;

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL;

EID: 2442504931     PISSN: 10473203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvcir.2003.09.001     Document Type: Article

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