Combining similarity measures in content-based image retrieval

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 2174-2181

  Arevalillo Herráez, Miguel ^a   Domingo, Juan ^a   Ferri, Francesc J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

CBIR; Combining descriptors; Probabilistic; Score normalization; Similarity function

Indexed keywords

COMBINES; CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION THEORY; LEARNING SYSTEMS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CBIR; COMBINING DESCRIPTORS; PROBABILISTIC; SCORE NORMALIZATION; SIMILARITY FUNCTION;

SET THEORY;

EID: 53949119549     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2008.08.003     Document Type: Article

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