Facing the reality of semantic image retrieval

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 465-481

  Enser, Peter G B ^a   Sandom, Christine J ^a   Hare, Jonathon S ^b   Lewis, Paul H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Resource description languages; Semantics; Visual databases

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547149521     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220410710758977     Document Type: Article

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