Image Description and Retrieval -

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Résumé :
With recent advances in multimedia technology, on-line libraries of digital images are assuming an ever increasing relevance within a wide range of information systems. Effective access to these archives requires not only conventional searching techniques based on keywords, but also content-based queries which allow visual features of data to be searched. This new comprehensive reference introduces the intricate science of implementing image modeling and retrieval based on the shape, on the color and texture, or on the spatial arrangement of imaged objects. Building on this introduction, six chapters by major research groups in the field detail and compare different modeling approaches.

Sommaire:
1. Image Modeling and Retrieval.- 1.1. Image Archives.- 1.2. The Modal Distance between Images and Text.- 1.3. Reducing Image Complexity through Models.- 1.4. A Three Stage Operation Scheme.- 1.5. Book Contents.- 2. Efficient and Effective Nearest Neighbor Search in a Medical Image Database of Tumor Shapes.- 2.1. Introduction.- 2.2. Survey.- 2.3. Mathematical Morphology.- 2.4. Problem Definition.- 2.5. Proposed Solution.- 2.6. Experiments.- 2.7. Conclusions.- 2.8. Discussion.- Appendices.- 2.A. Proof of Lemma.- 2.B. Proof of Lemma.- 2.C. Proof of Lemma.- 3. Shape-Similarity-Based Retrieval in Image Databases.- 3.1. Introduction.- 3.2. 2-Dimensional Shape Retrieval.- 3.3. 3-Dimensional Shape Retrieval.- 3.4. Conclusions.- 4. Color Angular Indexing and Image Retrieval.- 4.1. Introduction.- 4.2. Background.- 4.3. Distribution Angles.- 4.4. Results.- 4.5. Conclusion.- 5. Indexing Color-Texture Image Patterns.- 5.1. Introduction.- 5.2. Image Indexing Based on Texture and Color.- 5.3. Color Texture Indexing and Retrieval.- 5.4. Evaluation.- 5.5. Conclusions.- 5.6. Acknowledgments.- 6. Iconic Indexing for Visual Databases.- 6.1. Introduction.- 6.2. Background.- 6.3. Generalized Extended Pseudo-Symbolic Pictures.- 6.4. Algorithms for Generating GP-2D and GEP-2D Strings.- 6.5. Maintenance of Lost Absolute Spatial Relationships.- 6.6. The Generalized Combined 2D String Representation.- 6.7. Picture Retrieval by GEP-2D Strings and GC-2D Strings.- 6.8. Discussion and Conclusion.- 6.9. Acknowledgments.- 7. Using Weighted Spatial Relationships in Retrieval by Visual Contents.- 7.1. Introduction.- 7.2. Weighted Walkthroughs.- 7.3. Using Weighted Walkthroughs to Model Spatial Arrangements.- 7.4. Discussion.