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

2004

@inproceedings{TSB2004a,
	vgclass =	{refpap},
	author =	{ten Brinke, Walter and David McG. Squire and John
	Bigelow},
	title =	{Supervenience in Content-Based Image Retrieval},
	booktitle =	{International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information
	Systems (FOIS 2004)},
	address =	{Torino, Italy},
	pages =	{298--304},
	month =	{November~4--6},
	year =	{2004},
	abstract =	{In the last years there has been a boom in digital
	real-world image databases, for instance, in medical imagery and
	consumer digital photography.  In Information Retrieval, the field of
	Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) aims to retrieve images from a
	repository, and rank the retrieved images by computing the similarity
	between the images in the database and a query image.  A basic process
	in CBIR is the extraction of features from the digitized representation
	of an image on a computer.  These features are intended to represent
	features that coincide with human visual experience.  We explore the
	human visual experience of an image and discuss what an image is, and
	how it relates to the visual experience.  We show that an image consist
	of indivisible information carrying elements that make up the whole of
	the image.  We argue that a CBIR system must have an intermediate level
	for reasons of efficiency and effectiveness.  Then we apply the
	technical philosophical notion of supervenience to explain the nature
	of the relation between information carrying elements, the intermediate
	level and the image.  At the end of the paper, we offer our ontology of
	an image in a CBIR system.},
}