Abstract
Image retrieval by contents from database is a major research subject in advanced multimedia systems. The intrinsic visuality associated with pictorial data suggests the use of iconic indexes and visual techniques to perform retrieval effectively. In this paper we present a method for image retrieval based on sketches of object shapes. In our method, the shape drawn by the user is deformed to match as well as possible the objects in the images. The degree of match achieved, and the elastic deformation energy spent to achieve such a match are used as a measure of the similarity between the template and the image object. The elastic matching is integrated with arrangements to provide for scale invariance, to take into account rotations and spatial relationships between objects for multiple-object queries.
Chapter PDF
Similar content being viewed by others
Keywords
These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
References
S.Y. Lee and F.J. Hsu. “Spatial Reasoning and Similarity Retrieval of Images using 2D-C String Knowledge Representation”. Pattern Recognition, 25(3), 1992.
S.K.Chang, Q.Y.Shi, C.W.an, “Iconic Indexing by 2-D Strings”. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Vol.9, No.3, July 1987.
S.K.Chang, C.W.Yan, D.C.Dimitroff, T.Arndt, “An Intelligent Image Database System”. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol.14, No.5, May 1988.
A.Del Bimbo, E.Vicario, D.Zingoni, “A Spatial Logic for Symbolic Description of Image Contents”. to appear on Journal on Visual Languages and Computing.
K.Hirata, T.Kato, “Query by Visual Example: Content-Based Image Retrieval”. In Advances in Database Technology-EDBT'92, A.Pirotte, C.Delobel, G.Gottlob (Eds.), Lecture Notes on Computer Science, Vol.580.
W.Niblack et alii, “The QBIC Project: Querying Images by Content Using Color, Texture and Shape”. Res. Report 9203, IBM Res.Div. Almaden Res.Center, Feb.1993.
M.J.Swain, D.H.Gallard, “Color Indexing”. Int.Journal of Computer Vision, Vol.7, No.1, 1991.
S.L.Tanimoto, “An Iconic/Symbolic Data Structuring Scheme”. in. Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, C.H.Chen (Ed.), New York Academic, 1976.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1995 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Del Bimbo, A., Pala, P. (1995). Image retrieval by elastic matching of user sketches. In: Braccini, C., DeFloriani, L., Vernazza, G. (eds) Image Analysis and Processing. ICIAP 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 974. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60298-4_256
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60298-4_256
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-60298-9
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-44787-0
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive