Title : 
Image Characterization via Multilayer Neural Networks
         
        
            Author : 
Barcelos, Celia A Z ; Ribeiro, Eduardo F. ; Batista, Marcos A.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Fac. de Cienc. da Comput., Univ. Fed. de Uberlandia, Uberlandia
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
The achievement of image retrieval systems severally depends on the way the data is represented. This paper proposes a new image representation through an intelligent mechanism via neural networks for semantic-gap and dimensionality reduction. The goal of the multilayer neural network is to represent high-level semantic concepts and knowledge through a pre-defined set of images. As a consequence of this low-level into high-level feature transformation there is a semantic gap reduction between human perception and automatic feature extraction. The experimental results show the effective performance of the proposed technique.
         
        
            Keywords : 
feature extraction; image representation; image retrieval; neural nets; automatic feature extraction; dimensionality reduction; feature transformation; high-level semantic concepts; image representation; image retrieval systems; intelligent mechanism; multilayer neural networks; semantic gap reduction; Artificial intelligence; Artificial neural networks; Computer networks; Feature extraction; Humans; Image retrieval; Information retrieval; Input variables; Multi-layer neural network; Neural networks;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 2008. ICTAI '08. 20th IEEE International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Dayton, OH
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-0-7695-3440-4
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICTAI.2008.71