Digital visual libraries have currently available huge amounts of content in unstructured, nonindexed form. Since these collections keep growing fast, retrieving specific images i...
Image retrieval has been widely used in many fields of science and engineering. The semantic concept of user interest is obtained by a learning process. Traditional techniques oft...
Images can affect people on an emotional level. Since the emotions that arise in the viewer of an image are highly subjective, they are rarely indexed. However there are situation...
Web image search is inspired by text search techniques; it mainly relies on indexing textual data that surround the image file. But retrieval results are often noisy and image pro...
Querying by Visual Thesaurus (VT) is a novel paradigm for content-based image retrieval approaches for it gives the user the possibility, in case of inappropriate starting example...