Images are being produced and made available in ever increasing numbers; but how can we find images "like this one" that are of interest to us? Many different systems hav...
The proliferation of content-based image retrieval techniques has highlighted the need to understand the relationship between image clustering based on low-Ievel imagefeatures and...
We present an image retrieval system driven by free-hand sketched queries depicting shape. We introduce Gradient Field HoG (GF-HOG) as a depiction invariant image descriptor, enca...
A shape feature by itself is not sufficient for effective 3D model retrieval. Long-lasting semantics shared by a community as well as a short-lived intention of a user determines ...
Abstract Image retrieval has nowadays several industrial applications. In these imaging applications, which typically use large image archives, the matter of computational efficien...