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 ...
Advances in image acquisition and storage technology have led to tremendous growth in significantly large and detailed image databases. These images, if analyzed, can reveal usefu...
Region-based image retrieval systems aim to improve the effectiveness of content-based search by decomposing each image into a set of “homogeneous” regions. Thus, similarity b...
— In appearance based robot localization a new image is matched with every image in the database. In this paper we describe how to reduce the number of images in this database wi...
The variation of illumination conditions of an object can produce large changes in the image plane, significantly impairing the performance of face verification algorithms. We pre...