Morphological description of color images for content-based image retrieval

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2505-2517

  Aptoula, Erchan ^a   Lefèvre, Sébastian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Color description; Content based image retrieval (CBIR); Granulometry; Mathematical morphology (MM); Multiresolution histogram

Indexed keywords

COLOR DESCRIPTORS; COLOR IMAGES; CONTENT BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL; CONTENT-BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL (CBIR); GRANULOMETRIES; GRANULOMETRY; LEVELINGS; MORPHOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATOR; MULTI-RESOLUTIONS; MULTIRESOLUTION HISTOGRAM;

COLOR; CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIRESOLUTION ANALYSIS;

MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 70350607955     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2009.2027363     Document Type: Article

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