Jules Vleugels and Remco Veltkamp,
Efficient Image Retrieval through Vantage Objects,
In Dionysius P. Huijsmans and Arnold W. M. Smeulders eds., Third International Conference On Visual Information
Systems (VISUAL'99),
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, No. 1614 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 575-584, Springer-Verlag, June 2-4 1999.We describe a new indexing structure for general image retrieval that relies solely on a distance function giving the similarity between two images. For each image object in the database, its distance to a set of m predetermined vantage objects is calculated; the m�vector of these distances specifies a point in the m�dimensional vantage space. The database objects that are similar (in terms of the distance function) to a given query object can be determined by means of an efficient nearest�neighbor search on these points. We demonstrate the viability of our approach through experimental results obtained with a database of about 48,000 hieroglyphic polylines.