A novel technique for automatic shoeprint image retrieval

Forensic Science International

Volumn 181, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 10-14

  AlGarni, Gharsa ^a   Hamiane, Madina ^b  

^a IMAM ABDULRAHMAN BIN FAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Royal University for Women   (Bahrain)

Author keywords

Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR); Distance measure; Feature extraction; Forensics; Hu's seven moment invariants; Shoeprint classification

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 54349128592     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2008.07.004     Document Type: Article

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