HIRBIR: A hierarchical approach to region-based image retrieval

Multimedia Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 559-569

  Sun, Yongqing ^a   Ozawa, Shinji ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coarse segmentation; Hierarchical feature vector; Region based image retrieval (RBIR); Stepwise indexing; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PATTERN MATCHING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

COARSE SEGMENTATION; HIERARCHICAL FEATURE VECTORS; REGION BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL (RBIR); STEPWISE INDEXING;

IMAGE RETRIEVAL;

EID: 33845604578     PISSN: 09424962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00530-005-0182-7     Document Type: Article

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