Alexandre Winter and Chahab Nastar,
Differential Feature Distribution Maps for Image Segmentation and Region Queries in Image Databases,
In IEEE Workshop on Content-based Access of Image and Video
Libraries (CBAIVL'99),
Fort Collins, Colorado, USA, pp. 9-17, June 22 1999.We present a novel region segmentation framework, dedicated to region queries in content-based image retrieval. Some of the features that are considered for image indexing are used for segmenting the image in a few regions of interest. The novelty of our technique comes from the unification of the feature-space and the image-space segmentation in a common framework. The method uses no prior modeling of the image, focusing on local feature distributions and their spatial stability in a multi-feature, multi-resolution approach. Several experiments are presented on real-world imagery, demonstrating the power of the method for segmentation and region queries in image databases.