2D-PIR: a Symbolic Representation of Spatial Relationships

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

Fourth International Symposium on Large Spatial Databases (SSD'95),
Portland, Maine, August 1995.

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Spatial relationships are important ingredients for expressing constraints in retrieval systems for spatial databases. In this paper we propose a unified representation of spatial relationships, 2D Projection Interval Relationships (2D-PIR), that integrates both directional and topological relationships. We propose a graph representation for pictures that is based on 2D-PIR. This graph representation can be constructed efficiently and leads to an efficient algorithm for "picture matching".

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


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