A benchmark for image retrieval using distributed systems over the internet: BIRDS-I

HP Laboratories Technical Report

Volumn , Issue 162, 2000, Pages

  Gunther, Neil J ^a,b   Beretta, Giordano ^a,c,d  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b Performance Dynamics Consulting   (United States)

^c Imaging Systems Laboratory

^d HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Client server; Content Based Image Retrieval; Distributed systems; Ground truth; Internet performance metrics; Ontology; Response time; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

GROUND TRUTH; ONTOLOGY; PERFORMANCE METRICS; TAXONOMY;

ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKING; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; INTERNET; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84862443556     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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