CBGIR: content-based geographic image retrieval

  • Authors:
  • Shawn Newsam;Daniel Leung;Oscar Caballero;Justin Floreza;Jesus Pulido

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California at Merced;University of California at Merced;University of California at Merced;University of California at Merced;University of California at Merced

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 18th SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We describe and demonstrate CBGIR, a web-based system for performing content-based image retrieval in large sets of high-resolution overhead images. The system provides a familiar Google Maps interface to navigate the images and select regions of interest. A query-by-example paradigm is used to retrieve the most visually similar images to this region from a large target set of image tiles. Similarity can be computed with respect to a number of visual features including color, texture, and local invariant descriptors. We describe the salient components of the system and provide sample retrieval results.