A comparative analysis of web image and textual queries

Online Information Review

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 457-467

  Pu, Hsiao Tieh ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Query languages; Text retrieval; User studies; Visual databases; Worldwide web

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; FACE RECOGNITION; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEARCH ENGINES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

TEXT RETRIEVAL; USER STUDIES; VISUAL DATABASE;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 26444540324     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684520510628864     Document Type: Article

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