Progressive search and retrieval in large image archives

  • Authors:
  • V. Castelli;L. D. Bergman;I. Kontoyiannis;C.-S. Li;J. T. Robinson;J. J. Turek

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IBM Journal of Research and Development - Papers on mustimedia systems
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe the architecture and implementation of a framework to perform content-based search of an image database, where content is specified by the user at one or more of the following three abstraction levels: pixel, feature, and semantic. This framework incorporates a methodology that yields a computationally efficient implementation of image-processing algorithms, thus allowing the efficient extraction and manipulation of user-specified features and content during the execution of queries. The framework is well suited for searching scientific databases, such as satellite-image-, medical-, and seismic-data repositories, where the volume and diversity of the information do not allow the a priori generation of exhaustive indexes, but we have successfully demonstrated its usefulness on still-image archives.