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Content-Based Retrieval of Historical Watermark Images: I-tracings

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Providing content-based access to archives of historical watermarks involves a number of problems. This paper describes the development and evaluation of SHREW, a shape-matching system for watermark images based on techniques developed for the ARTISAN trademark retrieval system. Encouraging retrieval results have been obtained using tracings of watermark images, whether whole-image features or component-based measures are used for matching. Further development of the system is continuing.

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  1. Institute for Image Data Research, University of Northumbria, Newcastle, NE1 8ST, UK

    K. Jonathan Riley & John P. Eakins

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  1. LIACS Media Lab, Leiden University, Niels Bohrweg 1, 2333 CA, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Michael S. Lew  & Nicu Sebe  & 

  2. Institute for Image Data Research, University of Northumbria, Newcastle, NE1 8ST, UK

    John P. Eakins

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Riley, K.J., Eakins, J.P. (2002). Content-Based Retrieval of Historical Watermark Images: I-tracings. In: Lew, M.S., Sebe, N., Eakins, J.P. (eds) Image and Video Retrieval. CIVR 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2383. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45479-9_27

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