Image Description and Retrieval
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 conve
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ADVANCES IN COMPUTER VISION AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE Series Editor:
Martin D. Levine McGill University Montreal. Quebec. Canada
COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF VISUAL MOTION Amar Mitiche COMPUTER VISION FOR ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURING L. F. Pau HUMAN ENGINEERING IN STEREOSCOPIC VIEWING DEVICES Daniel B. Diner and Derek H. Fender IMAGE DESCRIPTION AND RETRIEVAL Edited by Enrico Vicario MACHINE LEARNING AND IMAGE INTERPRETATION Terry Caelli and Walter F. Bischof PYRAMIDAL ARCHITECTURES FOR COMPUTER VISION Virginio Cantoni and Marco Ferretti SEMANTIC NETWORKS FOR UNDERSTANDING SCENES Gerhard Sagerer and Heinrich Niemann SIGMA: A Knowledge-Based Aerial Image Understanding System Takahashi Matsuyama and Vincent Shang-Shouq Hwang
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Image Description and Retrieval Edited by
ENRICO VICARIO University ofFlorence Florence, Italy
SPRINGER SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, LLC
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ISBN 978-1-4613-7187-8 ISBN 978-1-4615-4825-6 (eBook) DOI 10 .1007/978-1-4615-4825-6
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Preface
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 that conventional searching techniques based on external textual keywords 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 characteristics of the images at hand, such m
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