Image retrieval from the World Wide Web: Issues, techniques, and systems

ACM Computing Surveys

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 35-67

  Kherfi, M L ^a   Ziou, D ^a   Bernardi, A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b Laboratoires Universitaires Bell   (Canada)

^c Bell University Laboratories   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crawling; Feature extraction and selection; Image retrieval; Indexing; Relevance feedback; Search; Similarity; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

CRAWLING; QUERY SPECIFICATION; RELEVANCE FEEDBACK;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES; TEXT PROCESSING;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 4344569205     PISSN: 03600300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1013208.1013210     Document Type: Review

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