Image retrieval using mixture models and EM algorithm

  • Authors:
  • Micheline Najjar;Christophe Ambroise;Jean Pierre Cocquerez

  • Affiliations:
  • Heudiasyc UMR CNRS, Universite de technologie de compiegne, Compiegne, France;Heudiasyc UMR CNRS, Universite de technologie de compiegne, Compiegne, France;Heudiasyc UMR CNRS, Universite de technologie de compiegne, Compiegne, France

  • Venue:
  • SCIA'03 Proceedings of the 13th Scandinavian conference on Image analysis
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper presents an original system for interactive content-based image retrieval (CBIR). A novel approach for searching by similarity is introduced. It is based on a classification of the index database using mixture models and the EM algorithm. The presented retrieval system is evaluated and validated using a medical image database and the Washington University heterogeneous database (ANN).