QUERY-BY-IMAGE SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM

An image query system, and associated method and computer program product are disclosed that enhance and accelerate image-based querying. To this end, the present invention presents a digital image query with implict and explicit associated metadata and retrieval of visually similar images or other...

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Hauptverfasser: WHYTE NICHOLAS A, BREWER BRETT D, MACBETH RANDALL J, WATSON ERIC B
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:An image query system, and associated method and computer program product are disclosed that enhance and accelerate image-based querying. To this end, the present invention presents a digital image query with implict and explicit associated metadata and retrieval of visually similar images or other pertinent information from a large collection of images stored on local, networked, or web-linked repositories.