Content-based image retrieval by a fuzzy scale-space approach

International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 849-867

  Ceccarelli, Michele ^a   Musacchia, Francesco ^b   Petrosino, Alfredo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Content based image retrieval (CBIR); Morphological gradient; Rough fuzzy sets; Scale space analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TEXTURES;

IMAGE DATABASES; MORPHOLOGICAL GRADIENTS; ROUGH FUZZY SETS; SCALE SPACE ANALYSIS;

IMAGE RETRIEVAL;

EID: 33749039495     PISSN: 02180014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218001406005009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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