Image Database Retrieval
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Overview of IDB Meeting

Motivating Scenario

There is a very wide variety of images...

Search for images containing waterfalls?

Search for
   cars?

What makes IDB hard?

Overview of IDB Meeting

Complex Feature Representation

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Resolution is reduced at each step…

Not every feature is useful for a query

Normalization of Signature Space

Distance/Similarity Measure

Incorporating Negative Examples

Interesting Pattern Recognition Properties

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