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

1999

@inproceedings{SMM1999,
	vgclass =	{refpap},
	vgproject =	{cbir,viper},
	author =	{David McG. Squire and Wolfgang M\"{u}ller and Henning M\"{u}ller and Jilali Raki},
	title =	{Content-based query of image databases, inspirations from text retrieval: inverted files, frequency-based weights and relevance feedback},
	booktitle =	{The 11th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA'99)},
	address =	{Kangerlussuaq, Greenland},
	pages =	{143--149},
	month =	{June 7--11},
	year =	{1999},
	url =	{/publications/postscript/1999/SquireMuellerMuellerRaki_scia99.pdf},
	url1 =	{/publications/postscript/1999/SquireMuellerMuellerRaki_scia99.ps.gz},
	abstract =	{In this paper we report the application of techniques
inspired by text retrieval research to the content-based query of image
databases. In particular, we show how the use of an inverted file data
structure permits the use of a feature space of $\mathcal{O}(10^4)$
dimensions, by restricting search to the subspace spanned by the features
present in the query. A suitably sparse set of colour and texture features
is proposed. A scheme based on the frequency of occurrence of features in both
individual images and in the whole collection provides a means of weighting
possibly incommensurate features in a compatible manner, and
naturally extends to incorporate relevance feedback queries. The use of
relevance feedback is shown consistently to improve system performance, as
measured by precision and recall.},
}