Emerging Topics in Computer Vision

8.1. Overview of Chapter

The overview of the basic components of the content-based image retrieval scheme is given in Figure 8.1, and the corresponding dataflow process is shown in Figure 8.3. The sections in this chapter harmonize with the data as they flow from one computational component to another as follows:

• Interactive query formulation: Interactive query formulation is offered either by querying images and subimages or by offering a pattern of feature values and weights. To achieve interactive query formulation, an image is sketched, recorded, or selected from an image repository. With the query formulation, the aim is to search for particular images in the database. The mode of search might be one of the following three categories: ...