Efficient Image Retrieval through Vantage Objects

  • Authors:
  • Jules Vleugels;Remco C. Veltkamp

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • VISUAL '99 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Visual Information and Information Systems
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

We describe a new indexing structure for general image retrieval that relies solely on a distance function giving the similarity between two images. For each image object in the database, its distance to a set of m predetermined vantage objects is calculated; the m-vector of these distances specifies a point in the m-dimensional vantage space. The database objects that are similar (in terms of the distance function) to a given query object can be determined by means of an efficient nearest-neighbor search on these points. We demonstrate the viability of our approach through experimental results obtained with a database of about 48,000 hieroglyphic polylines.