Pratikakis, I., Vanhamel, I., Sahli, H., Gatos, B., & Perantonis, S. (2006). Unsupervised watershed-driven region-based image retrieval. In IEE Proceedings on Vision, Image and Signal Processing (Vol. 153, pp. 313-322)

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title = "Unsupervised watershed-driven region-based image retrieval",
abstract = "A novel unsupervised strategy for content-based image retrieval is presented. It is based on a meaningful segmentation procedure that can provide proper distributions for matching via the earth mover's distance as a similarity metric. The segmentation procedure is based on a hierarchical watershed-driven algorithm that extracts meaningful regions automatically. In this framework, the proposed robust feature extraction and the many-to-many region matching along with the novel region weighting for enhancing feature discrimination play a major role. Experimental results demonstrate the performance of the proposed strategy.",
keywords = "Image segmentation, Content-based image retrieval, Watershed based image segmentation, Multiscale image analysis, Mathematical morphology, Earth Mover's distance",
author = "Ioannis Pratikakis and Iris Vanhamel and Hichem Sahli and Basilios Gatos and Stavros Perantonis",
year = "2006",
language = "English",
volume = "153",
number = "3",
pages = "313--322",
booktitle = "IEE Proceedings on Vision, Image and Signal Processing",
}