Machine Learning and Statistical Modeling Approaches to Image Retrieval

• Main Authors: Chen, Yixin. (Author), Li, Jia. (Author), Wang, James Z. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2004.
• Series: The Information Retrieval Series, 14
• Subjects: Physics.; Multimedia information systems.; Artificial intelligence.; Image processing.; Management information systems.; Computer science.; Optics.; Optoelectronics.; Plasmons (Physics).; Statistics.; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices.; Multimedia Information Systems.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Management of Computing and Information Systems.; Statistics, general.; Image Processing and Computer Vision.
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In the early 1990s, the establishment of the Internet brought forth a revolutionary viewpoint of information storage, distribution, and processing: the World Wide Web is becoming an enormous and expanding distributed digital library. Along with the development of the Web, image indexing and retrieva...

Table of Contents:

• Image Retrieval and Linguistic Indexing
• Machine Learning and Statistical Modeling
• A Robust Region-Based Similarity Measure
• Cluster-Based Retrieval by Unsupervised Learning
• Categorization by Learning and Reasoning with Regions
• Automatic Linguistic Indexing of Pictures
• Modeling Ancient Paintings
• Conclusions and Future Work.