Mining user hidden semantics from image content for image retrieval

Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 145-164

  Shen, Xiangjun ^a   Ju, Shiguang ^a   Cho, Siu Yeung ^b   Li, Feng ^a  

^a JIANGSU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Content based image retrieval; Dynamical feature selection; Dynamical weight adjusting; Object semantics; Object relation semantics; Similar region pair matching

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; FEATURE EXTRACTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

CONTENT-BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL; DYNAMICAL FEATURE SELECTION; DYNAMICAL WEIGHT ADJUSTING; OBJECT-RELATION SEMANTICS; SIMILAR REGION PAIR MATCHING;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 39749178380     PISSN: 10473203     EISSN: 10959076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvcir.2007.04.009     Document Type: Article

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