Image Description and Retrieval

1. Front Matter

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2. Image Modeling and Retrieval

   • Enrico Vicario

   Pages 1-15

3. Efficient and Effective Nearest Neighbor Search in a Medical Image Database of Tumor Shapes

   • Flip Korn, Nikos Sidiropoulos, Christos Faloutsos, Eliot Siegel, Zenon Protopapas

   Pages 17-54

4. Shape-Similarity-Based Retrieval in Image Databases

   • Rajiv Mehrotra, James E. Gary

   Pages 55-86

5. Color Angular Indexing and Image Retrieval

   • Graham D. Finlayson, S. S. Chatterjee, B. V. Funt

   Pages 87-103

6. Indexing Color-Texture Image Patterns

   • Anna Della Ventura, Isabella Gagliardi, Raimondo Schettini

   Pages 105-120

7. Iconic Indexing for Visual Databases

   • Qing-Long Zhang, Shi-Kuo Chang

   Pages 121-160

8. Using Weighted Spatial Relationships in Retrieval by Visual Contents

   • A. Del Bimbo, W-X. He, E. Vicario

   Pages 161-192

9. Back Matter

   Pages 193-194

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With the recent advances in multimedia technology, on-line libraries of digital images are assuming an ever increasing relevance within a wide range of information systems. Effective access to such archives requires on external textual keywords that conventional searching techniques based are complemented by content-based queries addressing appearing visual features of searched data. Central to this retrieval approach is the creation of models, which permit to abstract images into some space of features and support indexing and comparison of visual contents. Depending on the specific characteris­ tics of the images at hand, such models can rely on different facets of the informative contents of visual data: color and texture distribution, shape of appearing objects, spatial arrangement. This book introduces and exemplifies objectives and research themes in image modeling and retrieval. In the introductory chapter, the problem of image modeling and retrieval is motivated and discussed, and major entry-pointers to the literature are provided. Afterwards, different model­ ing approaches are addressed in six chapters contributed by major research groups in the field: modeling based on object shape is addressed in chapter 2 by F. Korn, N. Sidiropoulos, C. Faloutsos, E. Siegel, and Z. Protopapas, and in chapter 3 by R. Mehrotra and J. E. Gary; modeling based on color and texture distribution is addressed in chapter 4 by G. D. Finlayson, S. S. Chat­ terjee, and B. V. Funt, and in chapter 5 by I. Gagliardi, A.

• databases
• information
• information system
• modeling
• multimedia

• University of Florence, Florence, Italy

  Enrico Vicario

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