A flexible image retrieval using explicit visual instruction

Author

Kanehara, F. ; Satoh, S. ; Hamada, T.

Author_Institution

Nat. Center for Sci. Inf. Syst., Tokyo Univ., Japan

Volume

1

fYear

1995

fDate

14-16 Aug 1995

Firstpage

175

Abstract

We have developed a flexible image content retrieval system for silhouette images based on shape similarity. In our approach, a silhouette image is decomposed into primitives, each of which is translated into two signatures as indices of the image data. The two signatures are for attributes of each primitives and for relations between two of them, respectively. Queries are performed by the user´s drawing sketch and explicit instructions about attributes and relations with our developed sketch user interface. With this mechanism, the user can flexibly communicate detail requirements to the system and retrieve target images based on local/global shape features

Keywords

feature extraction; human factors; image recognition; information retrieval; query processing; visual databases; drawing sketch; explicit visual instruction; flexible image content retrieval system; flexible image retrieval; image data; image decomposition; local/global shape features; primitives; shape similarity; signatures; silhouette images; sketch user interface; Content based retrieval; Data mining; Image databases; Image retrieval; Information retrieval; Information systems; Shape; Spatial databases; User interfaces; Visual databases;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Document Analysis and Recognition, 1995., Proceedings of the Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que.

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7128-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDAR.1995.598970

Filename

598970