Chapter 8. Content-Based Image Retrieval: An Overview

Theo Gevers and Arnold W. M. Smeulders

In this chapter, we present an overview on the theory, techniques, and applications of content-based image retrieval. We choose patterns of use, image domains, and computation as the pivotal building blocks of our survey. A graphical overview of the content-based image retrieval scheme is given in Figure 8.1. Derived from this scheme, we follow the data as they flow through the computational process (see Figure 8.3), with the conventions indicated in Figure 8.2. In all of this chapter, we follow the review in [155] closely.

Figure 8.1. Overview of the basic concepts of the content-based image retrieval scheme considered in this chapter. First, features ...

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