Image retrieval in forensics: Tattoo image database application

IEEE Multimedia

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 40-49

  Lee, Jung Eun ^a   Jin, Rong ^a   Jain, Anil K ^a   Tong, Wei ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

biometrics; forensic databases; multimedia; near duplicate image retrieval; tattoo images; Tattoo ID system

Indexed keywords

CONTENT BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL; IMAGE DATABASE; IMAGE QUERY; LOW QUALITIES; MULTIMEDIA; NEAR-DUPLICATE IMAGE RETRIEVAL; RETRIEVAL ACCURACY; TATTOO IMAGES; TATTOO-ID SYSTEM;

BIOMETRICS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEARCH ENGINES;

IMAGE RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84863041156     PISSN: 1070986X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MMUL.2011.59     Document Type: Article

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