A region oriented strategy for content-based image retrieval is presented. It is based on a meaningful segmentation procedure that can provide proper distributions for matching through the Earth Mover's Distance (EMD) as a similarity metric. The segmentation procedure is based on a multiscale watershed-driven algorithm which extracts meaningful regions using a graph-cut algorithm that operates on a multiscale region adjacency graph. In this framework, the proposed robust feature extraction and the many-to-many region matching along with the region weighting for enhancing feature discrimination play a major role. Experimental results demonstrate the performance of the proposed strategy.
Vanhamel, I, Mihai, C, Sahli, H & Pratikakis, I 2007, Content-based Image Retrieval via Multi-scale Graph-based Segmentation. in 7th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR 2007). pp. 43-50, Finds and Results from the Swedish Cyprus Expedition: A Gender Perspective at the Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden, 21/09/09.
Vanhamel, I., Mihai, C., Sahli, H., & Pratikakis, I. (2007). Content-based Image Retrieval via Multi-scale Graph-based Segmentation. In 7th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR 2007) (pp. 43-50)
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title = "Content-based Image Retrieval via Multi-scale Graph-based Segmentation",
abstract = "A region oriented strategy for content-based image retrieval is presented. It is based on a meaningful segmentation procedure that can provide proper distributions for matching through the Earth Mover's Distance (EMD) as a similarity metric. The segmentation procedure is based on a multiscale watershed-driven algorithm which extracts meaningful regions using a graph-cut algorithm that operates on a multiscale region adjacency graph. In this framework, the proposed robust feature extraction and the many-to-many region matching along with the region weighting for enhancing feature discrimination play a major role. Experimental results demonstrate the performance of the proposed strategy.",
keywords = "Content based image retrieval, Multiscale watershed analysis, Multiscale graph theory",
author = "Iris Vanhamel and Cosmin Mihai and Hichem Sahli and Ioannis Pratikakis",
year = "2007",
month = mar,
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booktitle = "7th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR 2007)",
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