Content-based image retrieval requires a natural image (e.g, a photo) as query, but the absence of such a query image is usually the reason for a search. An easy way to express the...
The performance of fingerprint matching algorithm relies heavily on the accuracy of fingerprint alignment. Falsely aligning two feature sets extracted from two finger images of a f...
We introduce the concept of a spatiogram, which is a generalization of a histogram that includes potentially higher order moments. A histogram is a zeroth-order spatiogram, while ...
Abstract. Accurate selectivity estimations are essential for query optimization decisions where they are typically derived from various kinds of histograms which condense value dis...
In this paper, we describe an approach for the automatic medical image annotation task of the 2009 CLEF cross-language image retrieval campaign (ImageCLEF). This work is focused o...