We have witnessed great interest and a wealth of promise in content-based image retrieval
as an emerging technology. While the last decade laid foundation to such promise, it also …

This book introduces the fundamental concepts of modern digital image processing. It aims
to help the students, scientists, and practitioners to understand the concepts through clear …

The effectiveness of a video retrieval system largely depends on the choice of underlying
text and image retrieval components. The unique properties of video collections (eg, multiple …

Color, texture and shape information have been the primitive image descriptors in content
based image retrieval systems. This paper presents a novel framework for combining all the …

In a typical content-based image retrieval (CBIR) system, target images (images in the
database) are sorted by feature similarities with respect to the query. Similarities among …

This application claims priority to US Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/829,556,
filed Oct. 16, 2006. This application is also a continuation-in-part of US patent appli cation …

The increased need of content based image retrieval technique can be found in a number of
different domains such as Data Mining, Education, Medical Imaging, Crime Prevention …

The explosion of the Internet provides us with a tremendous resource of images shared
online. It also confronts vision researchers the problem of finding effective methods to …

This paper proposes a fuzzy logic approach, UFM (unified feature matching), for region-
based image retrieval. In our retrieval system, an image is represented by a set of …

This paper presents\bic (B order/I nterior pixel C lassification), a compact and efficient CBIR
approach suitable for broad image domains. It has three main components:(1) a simple and …