Refereed full papers (journals, book chapters, international conferences)

1999

@inproceedings{MBM1999,
	vgclass =	{refpap},
	vgproject =	{cbir},
	author =	{Moghaddam, Baback and Biermann, Henning and Margaritis, Dimitris},
	title =	{Defining Image Content with Multiple Regions of Interest},
	booktitle =	{IEEE Workshop on Content-based Access of Image and Video
	Libraries (CBAIVL'99)},
	address =	{Fort Collins, Colorado, USA},
	pages =	{89--93},
	month =	{June~22},
	year =	{1999},
	url =	{http://www.merl.com/reports/TR99-10/TR99-10.ps},
	abstract =	{With the proliferation of multimedia, the web and digital
	imaging, there now exists a high demand for intelligent tools for image
	management; most importantly indexing and retrieval -- commonly
	referred to as ``query-by-image-content''. Existing systems often make
	use of global attributes such as overall color distributions which
	ignore the actual composition of the image in terms of internal
	structures. In this paper we present an experimental image retrieval
	system designed and based on the principle that it is the user who is
	most qualified to specify the ``content'' in an image and not the
	computer.  Consequently, the user is asked to provide salient
	``regions-of-interest'' (ROIs) and to specify the importance of their
	relative spatial relationships in the query image. Our technique leads
	to acceptable retrievals (equal if not better than global-based
	searches) and provides an intuitive interface and more flexibility in
	specifying image content.},
}