Design of an intelligent database system : techniques for image recognition and retrieval

• Main Author: Guo, Xiao Yi.
• Other Authors: Gong, Yihong
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Computer hardware, software and systems
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/19613
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Content-based image indexing is becoming increasingly important in today's imaging applications. While general object recognition is difficult, it is relatively easy to capture some primitive image properties such as color distribution, prominent regions and their geometrical properties from an image and use these features to narrow down the search space to retrieve images by contents from an image database.