A visual language for color-based painting retrieval

Author

Corridoni, J.M. ; Bimbo, A. Del ; Magistris, De ; Vicario, E.

Author_Institution

Dipartimento di Sistemi e Inf., Univ. degli Studi di Firenze, Italy

fYear

1996

fDate

3-6 Sep 1996

Firstpage

68

Lastpage

75

Abstract

The availability of large image databases is emphasizing the relevance of filters, which permit one to focus on a small subset of data. Visual specification of such filters provides a natural way to express content-oriented queries. To support a high power of expression, an original visual language is proposed for the symbolic representation of the semantics induced by the color quality and arrangement over a painting. The proposed language is based on the theory of color semantics introduced by artists in the 20th Century, and is developed to support a visual querying paradigm. This paper formalizes the grammar of the language in its visual form and describes it implementation in a prototype system of painting retrieval by color content

Keywords

art; filters; image colour analysis; query languages; visual databases; visual languages; color arrangement; color quality; color semantics; color-based painting retrieval; content-oriented queries; data subsets; expressiveness; filters; grammar; large image databases; symbolic representation; visual language; visual querying paradigm; visual specification; Content based retrieval; Electronic mail; Filters; Image databases; Image retrieval; Information retrieval; Multimedia systems; Painting; Prototypes; Shape;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visual Languages, 1996. Proceedings., IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Boulder, CO

ISSN

1049-2615

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7508-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VL.1996.545270

Filename

545270