Peter Bosch, Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Alex van Ballegooij, Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Arjen P. de Vrie, Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
We believe there is a niche for exact sub-image searching in image databases. When only a sub-image is searched for, traditional image searching approaches fail because the sub-image features usually represent only a small fraction of the global image features. Said differently: it is difficult to find the sub-image in the global features. We present a new technique to find sub-images in a (possibly large) image database. The users articulate their interest in a sub-image, i.e. an object within an image, in a so-called precise multi-spot query. We search our spatially oriented color-based image database image-by-image for matches with this multi-spot query.
Citation:
Peter Bosch, Alex van Ballegooij, Arjen P. de Vrie, "EXACT MATCHING IN IMAGE DATABASES," icme, pp.101, 2001 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME'01), 2001