Efficient and User-Friendly Image Retrieval System Based on Query by Visual Keys

  • Serata, M. (Department of Computational Intelligence & System Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology) ;
  • Sakuma, K. (Department of Computational Intelligence & System Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology) ;
  • Stejic, Z. (Department of Computational Intelligence & System Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology) ;
  • Kawamoto, K. (Department of Computational Intelligence & System Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology) ;
  • Nobuhara, H. (Department of Computational Intelligence & System Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology) ;
  • Yoshida, S. (Department of Computational Intelligence & System Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology) ;
  • Hirota, K. (Department of Computational Intelligence & System Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
  • Published : 2003.09.01

Abstract

A new query method, called query by visual keys, is proposed to aim easy operation and efficient region-based image retrieval (RBIR). Visual keys are constructed from representative regions/subimages in a given image database, and the database is indexed with visual keys. A system on PC is presented, where text retrieval techniques are applied to the image retrieval with visual keys. Experimental results show that one retrieval is done within 4ms and that the proposed system achieves the comparable retrieval precision (with user-friendly operation and low computational cost) to conventional region based image retrieval systems

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