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Image Database

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Content-based image retrieval (CBIR); Image retrieval; Image retrieval system

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Given a collection of images, a full-fledged image database provides means and technologies that support an efficient and rich modeling, storing, indexing, retrieval, and manipulation of images and its metadata. The modeling of images can range, depending on the used metadata format (e.g., MPEG-7), from simple technical annotations such as file size, creator, etc., to more sophisticated annotations such as low-level features (e.g., color) or even high-level features (e.g., objects, events, etc.). The storing component is responsible for mapping the used metadata format to an adequate database schema. Indexing facilities should support efficient retrieval and need to provide means (depending on the used metadata) for indexing text, multidimensional feature vectors, and high-level representations. The retrieval and query specification should support some or all of the following concepts:...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. University of Applied Science Kufstein, Kufstein, Austria

    Mario Döller

  2. University of Passau, Passau, Germany

    Harald Kosch

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science, New Jersey Inst. of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA

    Vincent Oria

  2. Digital Content and Media Sciences ReseaMultimedia Information Research Division, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

    Shin'ichi Satoh

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Döller, M., Kosch, H. (2018). Image Database. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_1007

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