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This paper reports about an implementation of a search engine for visual information content, which has been developed in the context of the forthcoming MPEG-7 standard. The system supports similarity-based retrieval of visual (image and video) data along feature axes like color, texture, shape and geometry. The descriptors for these features have been developed in a way such that invariance against common transformations of visual material, e.g. filtering, contrast/color manipulation, resizing etc. is achieved, and that they are fitted to human perception properties. Furthermore, descriptors have been designed that allow a fast, hierarchical search procedure, where the inherent search mechanisms of database systems can be employed. This is important for client-server applications, where pre-selection should be performed at the database side. Database interfaces have been implemented in a platform-independent way based on SQL. The results show that efficient search and retrieval in distributed visual database systems is possible based on a normative feature description such as MPEG-7.
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Ohm, JR. et al. (1999). A Visual Search Engine for Distributed Image and Video Database Retrieval Applications. In: Huijsmans, D.P., Smeulders, A.W.M. (eds) Visual Information and Information Systems. VISUAL 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1614. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48762-X_24
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