Fuzzy Content-Based Retrieval in Image Databases

Publication Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

1998

Abstract

Image data are inherently visual. The description of visual characteristics of images are imprecise. Fuzzy retrieval of images stored in a feature-based image database is a natural means to access the data. Unfortunately, to the authors knowledge, little work has been done on fuzzy image database models and fuzzy retrieval of feature-based image databases. In this paper, a fuzzy image database model and a concept of fuzzy space are proposed and fuzzy query processing in fuzzy space and fuzzy indexing on complex fuzzy vectors are described. An example image database, the computer-aided facial image inference and retrieval system (CAFIIR), is used for explanation throughout the paper.

Discipline

Computer Sciences | Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing

Research Areas

Information Systems and Management

Publication

Information Processing and Management

Volume

34

Issue

5

First Page

513

Last Page

534

ISSN

0306-4573

Identifier

10.1016/s0306-4573(98)00017-x

Publisher

Elsevier

Additional URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0306-4573(98)00017-x

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