Histogram similarity measure using variable bin size distance

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 114, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 981-989

  Ma, Yu ^a   Gu, Xiaodong ^a   Wang, Yuanyuan ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Histogram distance; Histogram similarity; Image retrieval; Variable bin size distance (VBSD)

Indexed keywords

BIN SIZE; HISTOGRAM DISTANCE; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL HISTOGRAMS; SIMILARITY MEASURE;

GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 77953962014     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2010.03.006     Document Type: Article

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