Closing the semantic gap in content based image retrieval (CBIR) basically requires the knowledge of the user's intention which is usually translated into a sequence of quest...
Conventional approaches to image retrieval are based on the assumption that relevant images are physically near the query image in some feature space. This is the basis of the clu...
A new approach is presented for partitioning an image database by classifying and indexing the convex hull shapes and the number of region concavities. The result is a significant...
In this paper, the performance of the Earth Mover’s Distance (EMD) vs χ2 distance as histogram similarity metrics for image retrieval is evaluated experimentally. Ground truth ...
In this paper we describe a distributed retrieval system for medical images based on a Human Centered Virtual Machine (HCVM). HCVM layered architecture allows indexing and retrieva...
R. Castelletti, Ernesto Damiani, Giovanni Righini,...