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The need for efficient content-based image retrieval has increased tremendously in many application areas such as biomedicine, crime prevention, the military, commerce, culture, education, and entertainment. Content-based image retrieval is also crucial to Web image classification and searching.
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Wang, J.Z. (2001). Introduction. In: Integrated Region-Based Image Retrieval. The Information Retrieval Series, vol 11. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1641-5_1
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