Interactive search in image retrieval: a survey

International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 71-86

  Thomee, Bart ^a,b   Lew, Michael S ^b  

^a YAHOO RESEARCH   (Spain)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Content based image retrieval; Human computer interaction; Image search; Interactive search; Multimedia information retrieval; Relevance feedback

Indexed keywords

EID: 85016693226     PISSN: 21926611     EISSN: 2192662X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13735-012-0014-4     Document Type: Article

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