A linear-time approximation of the earth mover's distance

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 505-514

  Jang, Min Hee ^a   Kim, Sang Wook ^a   Faloutsos, Christos ^b   Park, Sunju ^c  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

^c Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

distance function; earth mover's distance; image retrieval

Indexed keywords

COLOR DESCRIPTORS; COLOR QUANTIZATION; COLOR SPACE; CONTENT BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL; DISTANCE FUNCTIONS; DOMINANT COLOR; DOMINANT COLOR DESCRIPTORS; EARTH MOVER'S DISTANCE; LARGE IMAGE DATABASE; LINEAR TIME; LINEAR-TIME APPROXIMATION; OPTIMAL COLOR COMPOSITION DISTANCE; SPACE-FILLING CURVE;

COLOR; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

IMAGE RETRIEVAL;

EID: 83055187635     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2063576.2063652     Document Type: Conference Paper

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