M. Nappi, G. Polese and G. Tortora,
Fractal Based Indexing in Image Databases,
In Image Databases and Multi-Media Search,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 162-169, August 1996.
M. Nappi, G. Polese and G. Tortora,
Fractal Based Indexing in Image Databases,
In Image Databases and Multi-Media Search,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 162-169, August 1996.We present a new Image Indexing method and an implemented system to perform Content Based retrieval in heterogeneous Image Databases. The method is based on the Theory of Iterated Function Systems (IFS), already exploited for image compression, and it uses a training set of images to build the set of indexing features. The index structure is represented through a reduced vector of features on which we use R-Tree to efficiently access images in the database.