In addition to use as a text, Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and Practice holds value for
all individuals and institutions involved in training for information retrieval and related …

Research on multimedia information retrieval (MIR) has recently witnessed a booming
interest. A prominent feature of this research trend is its simultaneous but independent …

The paper describes a new indexing methodology for image databases integrating color
and spatial information for content-based image retrieval. This methodology, called Spatial …

With the increasing popularity of the use of compressed images, an intuitive approach for
lowering computational complexity towards a practically efficient image retrieval system is to …

Content-based image retrieval systems require the development of relevance feedback
mechanisms that allow the user to progressively refine the system's response to a query. In …

In the past decade, the way image based media is created, disseminated, and shared has
changed exponentially, as digital imaging technology has replaced traditional film based …

Background InformationRetrieval (IR) has become, mainly as aresultofthe huge impact of the
World Wide Web (WWW) and CD-ROM industry, one of the most important theoretical and …

In this paper, we propose biogeography particle swarm optimization (BPSO) approach for
content based image retrieval using low-level features like color and texture. This approach …

Epic is an image retrieval system that implements a novel spatial-querying mechanism. A
usercentred, task-oriented, comparative evaluation of Epic was undertaken in which two …

Similarity retrieval by spatial image content (ie using multiple objects and their relationships
in space) is still an open problem which has received considerable attention in the literature …