Title
Similarity Measure of the Visual Features Using the Constrained Hierarchical Clustering for Content Based Image Retrieval
Abstract
In this paper, we present a methodology on how to measure the visual similarity between a query image and hierarchically represented image databases for content based image retrieval. The images in database are hierarchically summarized and classified by recovered extrinsic camera parameters as well as constrained agglomerative clustering methods. The constrained agglomerative hierarchical image clustering method whose strategy is to extract a multi-level partitioning and grouping of multiple images is used for balancing the hierarchical trees and summarization. The visual codebooks which are hierarchically quantized in the clusters are used to calculate the similarity measure with a query image's visual features. Our proposed visual similarity measure and summarization of image data provide a very efficient way for searching and retrieving the images that have similar visual contents and geometrical location.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/978-3-540-89646-3_85
ISVC
Keywords
Field
DocType
similarity measure,constrained hierarchical clustering,image data,query image,visual codebooks,multiple image,image databases,image retrieval,visual feature,agglomerative hierarchical image,similar visual content,proposed visual similarity measure,hierarchical clustering
Hierarchical clustering,Data mining,Automatic image annotation,Pattern recognition,Similarity measure,Computer science,Image retrieval,Consensus clustering,Artificial intelligence,Brown clustering,Content-based image retrieval,Visual Word
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5359
0302-9743
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
10
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sang Min Yoon112919.66
Holger Graf25615.10