Image segmentation search engine: Advanced access to an image archive database

Author

Minelli, Sam H. ; de Polo, Andrea

Author_Institution

Electr. Eng., R&D Unit, Florence, Italy

fYear

2004

fDate

6-10 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

1043

Lastpage

1046

Abstract

As long as innovative channels are going to be accessible, the digital archives need to integrate new technologies and services for digital image processing and delivery. The possibility to search images by means of features and other images and not only with keywords, seems to be an important challenge. The Alinari´s image-archive research department is testing some specific search agents able to “retrieve images by images”: a customer could be interested to find all the images that are someway similar to one specific image he chooses (i.e. a family photo). European SCHEMA project (IST-2001-32795) is currently working on object and region segmentation algorithms and with the Qimera platform has obtained very good results. This paper refers to Alinari´s application cases and tests¹.

Keywords

image retrieval; image segmentation; search engines; visual databases; Alinari application; European SCHEMA project; Qimera platform; digital archives; digital image delivery; digital image processing; image archive database; image retrieval; image segmentation search engine; image-archive research department; iunovative chaunels; object segmentation algorithm; region segmentation algorithm; Abstracts; Biomedical imaging; Computer aided software engineering; Databases; Image segmentation; Intellectual property; Robustness; IPR management; QIMERA; artificial vision; digital image archiving; digital image segmentation; search engines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing Conference, 2004 12th European

Conference_Location

Vienna

Print_ISBN

978-320-0001-65-7

Type

conf

Filename

7079755