Artificial Vision

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Visual Databases

12.1 Introduction

12.2 Single images

12.2.1 Iconic indexing and querying based on spatial relationships

12.2.2 Iconic indexing and querying based on colors and textures

12.2.3 Iconic indexing and querying based on object shapes

12.3 Image sequences

12.3.1 High-level indexing and retrieval

12.3.2 Iconic indexing and querying based on spatial relationships

12.1 INTRODUCTION

Databases of images and image sequences are becoming a subject of increasing relevance in multimedia applications. Archiving and retrieving these data requires different approaches from those used with traditional textual data. Specifically, the marked characterization of the information units managed in such systems, with the lack of a native structured ...