Querying and retrieving pictorial data using semantics induced by colour quality and arrangement

Author

Corridoni, Jacopo M. ; Bimbo, Alberto Del ; De Magistris, Silvio

Author_Institution

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

fYear

1996

fDate

17-23 Jun 1996

Firstpage

219

Lastpage

222

Abstract

In this paper a novel approach is featured to querying painting databases on the basis of the semantics implied by the use artists make of colours. A symbolic query language, called “colour description language” has been designed to express high-level chromatic features of a painting, which cannot be obtained through a set of concrete examples. A visual extension of the language is then presented which introduces a feedback between the sentence composed and its pictorial meaning. The language has been used as the high-level query paradigm of a prototype automatic painting database

Keywords

art; colour graphics; multimedia computing; query languages; query processing; visual databases; visual languages; art; colour arrangement; colour description language; colour quality; high-level chromatic features; high-level query language; multimedia database; painting database querying; pictorial data querying; pictorial data retrieval; semantics; symbolic query language; Art; Concrete; Database languages; Electrical capacitance tomography; Engines; Image databases; Information retrieval; Painting; Shape; Utility programs;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Computing and Systems, 1996., Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hiroshima

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7438-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMCS.1996.534978

Filename

534978