Image retrieval using histograms of uni-color and bi-color blocks and directional changes in intensity gradient

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 1547-1557

  Nezamabadi Pour, H ^a,b   Kabir, E ^a  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BAHONAR UNIVERSITY OF KERMAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Color histogram; Content based image retrieval; Image indexing; Intensity gradient

Indexed keywords

COLOR; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GRADIENT METHODS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; IMAGE CODING; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); PROBABILITY;

COLOR HISTOGRAMS; IMAGE INDEXING; INTENSITY GRADIENT;

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL;

EID: 4644305581     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2004.05.019     Document Type: Article

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