Abstract Evaluation and benchmarking of real-time skin detectors remain challenging
because of multiple evaluation attributes that must be considered. Numerous evaluation and …

The issues of getting similar images with better accuracy is now a challenge in content-
based image retrieval (CBIR) system due to exponential rising volume of image databases …

In the recent years, there are massive digital images collections in many fields of our life,
which led the technology to find methods to search and retrieve these images efficiently. The …

With the exponential growth of Web 2.0 applications, tags have been used extensively to
describe the image contents on the Web. Due to the noisy and sparse nature in the human …

We are living in an Age of Information where the amount of accessible data from science
and culture is almost limitless. However, this also means that finding an item of interest is …

To address the problem of inadequate feature extraction and binary code discrete
optimization faced by deep hashing methods using a relaxation-quantization strategy, a …

Intelligent image retrieval is a challenging technology in multimedia applications where
bridging the gap between user׳ s expectation and low level features is typically hard for …

Image classifiers are largely adopted to categorize a pool of images or patterns in a
databank, match category of a query image and to retrieve similar images to query from the …

Image generation has received increasing attention because of its wide application in
security and entertainment. Sketch-based face generation brings more fun and better quality …

Understanding the subjective meaning of a visual query, by converting it into numerical
parameters that can be extracted and compared by a computer, is the paramount challenge …