Natural Image Retrieval with Sketches

In this paper, we present a method to retrieve natural images by sketch query. To measure the similarity between the sketch and an image, relevant regions are first located in that image through a multi-resolution search, and a normalized local shape similarity is proposed for image retrieval. Efficiency and other implementation issues are discussed. Experimental results show that it is an effective approach for content-based image retrieval.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ICMCS
• Authors: Jinyi Yao, Mingjing Li, Zhiwei Li, Lei Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma
• Keywords: ICMCS 2005, Image, Image Retrieval, Local Shape Similarity