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

2001

@inbook{SMM2001,
	vgclass =	{refpap},
	vgproject =	{cbir,viper},
	author =	{David McG.\ Squire and Henning M\"{u}ller and Wolfgang
	M\"{u}ller and St\'{e}phane Marchand-Maillet and Thierry Pun},
	title =	{Design and Evaluation of a Content-based Image Retrieval
	System},
	booktitle =	{Design and Management of Multimedia Information Systems:
	Opportunities and Challenges},
	chapter =	{7},
	pages =	{125--151},
	publisher =	{Idea Group Publishing},
	year =	{2001},
	doi =	{http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-930708-00-6},
	abstract =	{The growth in size and accessibility of multimedia
	databases have changed our approach to information retrieval.
	Classical text-based systems show their limitations in the context of
	multimedia retrieval.  In this chapter, we address the problem of
	conceiving and evaluating a content-based image retrieval system.

	First, we investigate the use of the query-by-example (QBE) paradigm as
	a base paradigm for the development of a content-based image retrieval
	system (CBIRS).  We show that it should be considered as a complement
	to the classical textual-based paradigms.  We then evaluate the
	capabilities of the most up-to-date computer vision techniques in
	contributing to the realisation of such a system.  Further, beyond the
	necessity of accurate image understanding techniques, we show that the
	amount of data involved by the process of describing image content
	should also be considered as an important issue.  This aspect of our
	study is largely based on the experience acquired by the text retrieval
	(TR) community, which we adapt to the context of CBIR.  Similarly, the
	text retrieval community has also developed a significant experience in
	evaluating retrieval systems, where judgements include subjectivity and
	context dependency.  Extending this experience, we study a coherent
	framework for performing the evaluation of a CBIRS.

	As a practical example, we use our Viper CBIR system, using a novel
	communication protocol called MRML to pinpoint the importance of the
	sharing  of resource in facilitating the evaluation and therefore the
	development of CBIRS.},
}