Title :
COMPASS: an image retrieval system for distributed databases
Author :
Brunelli, R. ; Mich, O.
Author_Institution :
ITC-irst, Trento, Italy
Abstract :
A currently relevant research field in information sciences is the management of non-traditional distributed multimedia databases. Three related key issues are achieving an effective content-based query-by-example retrieval, a fast response time and adapting image comparison strategies to user needs. This paper presents COMPASS, a distributed image retrieval system which provides novel solutions to these key issues. Statistical methods are used to quantify image descriptor effectiveness, to simplify user queries and to select an image comparison strategy which optimizes the search speed while preserving answer quality
Keywords :
content-based retrieval; distributed databases; multimedia databases; vocabulary; COMPASS; content-based query-by-example retrieval; distributed image retrieval system; distributed multimedia databases; image comparison strategies; image descriptor effectiveness; response time; search speed optimization; statistical methods; user needs; user query simplification; Content based retrieval; Delay; Distributed databases; Image analysis; Image databases; Image retrieval; Information retrieval; Multimedia databases; Optimization methods; Statistical analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia and Expo, 2000. ICME 2000. 2000 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
New York, NY
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6536-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICME.2000.869565
