Exploiting visual descriptions of regions for content-based image retrieval

• Main Author: Tao, Chen.
• Other Authors: Chen, Lihui
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Electronic systems::Signal processing; DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Computer hardware, software and systems
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/13304
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis discusses our view of content-based image retrieval (CBIR) and our experience with an experimental region-of-interest (ROI)-oriented CBIR system. We present a methodology in which efficient representation and indexing of regional visual features serve as the basis for content-based image...