An attention-based approach to content-based image retrieval

BT Technology Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 151-160

  Bamidele, Adetokunbo ^a   Stentiford, Fred W M ^a   Morphett, Jason ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BT Group   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; VISUAL ATTENTION MODEL; VISUAL SEARCH;

DATA STRUCTURES; METADATA; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES;

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL;

EID: 7644222879     PISSN: 13583948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:BTTJ.0000047129.83260.79     Document Type: Article

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