Pictorial Query Specification for Browsing Through Spatially-Referenced Image Databases (1998)
| Venue: | In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Visual Information Systems |
| Citations: | 12 - 7 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Soffer98pictorialquery,
author = {Aya Soffer and Hanan Samet},
title = {Pictorial Query Specification for Browsing Through Spatially-Referenced Image Databases},
booktitle = {In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Visual Information Systems},
year = {1998},
pages = {117--124}
}
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Abstract
A pictorial query specification technique that enables the formulation of complex pictorial queries for browsing through a collection of spatially-referenced images is presented. It is distinguished from most other methods by the fact that in these methods the query image specifies a target database image in its entirety whereas in our approach the query image specifies the combination of objects that the target database image should contain rather than being treated as a whole image. The query objects are represented by shape features although other features such as color, texture, or wavelets could also be used. Using our technique, it is possible to specify which particular objects should appear in the target images as well as how many occurrences of each object are required. Moreover, it is possible to specify the minimum required certainty of matching between query-image objects and database-image objects, as well as to impose spatial constraints that specify bounds on the distanc...
