Automatic annotation and retrieval of images

World Wide Web

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 209-231

  Song, Yuqing ^a   Wang, Wei ^b   Zhang, Aidong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEARBORN   (United States)

^b State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Content based image retrieval; Image annotation; Monotonic tree; Semantics

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DATA STRUCTURES; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); WEB BROWSERS;

AUTOMATIC IMAGE RETRIEVAL; IMAGE ANNOTATION; MONOTONIC TREES;

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL;

EID: 3543064171     PISSN: 1386145X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023674722438     Document Type: Conference Paper

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