An Image Retrieval System for Distributed Environments

Mohammed Nabil, John Shepherd, Anne H.H. Ngu

Eighth International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering (RIDE98), Orlando, Florida, February 1998.

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In this paper, we describe a prototype image retrieval system for distributed environments based on 2D Projection Interval Relationships (2D-PIR). The system transforms an image to a symbolic representation that describes spatial relationships among objects in the image. The image database consists of three parts: the real image repository (which is distributed) and the symbolic and iconic image repositories (which are stored locally). We describe the result of experiments on a small image database which compare the performance of our system against a keyword-based retrieval system and also against other content-based image retrieval systems.

Keys: Image retrieval, Spatial relationships, Similarity retrieval, 2D-PIR


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