We investigate the properties of a metric between two distributions, the Earth Mover's Distance (EMD), for content-based image retrieval. The EMD is based on the minimal cost ...
Traditional image retrieval methods require a "query image" to initiate a search for members of an image category. However, when the image database is unstructured, and ...
In this paper, we present a general guideline to find a better distance measure for similarity estimation based on statistical analysis of distribution models and distance function...
Jie Yu, Jaume Amores, Nicu Sebe, Petia Radeva, Qi ...
In the framework of the interactive search in image databases, we are interested in similarity measures able to learn during the search and usable in real-time. Images are represe...
Justine Lebrun, Sylvie Philipp-Foliguet, Philippe ...
Voluminous medical images are generated daily. They are critical assets for medical diagnosis, research, and teaching. To facilitate automatic indexing and retrieval of large medic...