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We study three transformation-invariant shape descriptors and evaluate their relative strengths in the context of content-based retrieval of graphical sketches. We show that the use of a combination of different shape representations may lead to a significant improvement of retrieval performance and identify an optimal combination that proves robust across different data sets and queries.
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Heesch, D., Rüger, S. (2002). Combining Features for Content-Based Sketch Retrieval — A Comparative Evaluation of Retrieval Performance. In: Crestani, F., Girolami, M., van Rijsbergen, C.J. (eds) Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2291. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45886-7_3
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