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Trademark image searching is potentially one of the most important application areas for automated content-based image retrieval (CBIR) techniques. There are many large and growing collections of trademark images in electronic form. The task of maintaining manual indexes to these image collections is becoming increasingly onerous. And there is a paramount need for accurate and reliable searching, since the images can be of major commercial significance.
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Eakins, J.P. (2001). Trademark Image Retrieval. In: Lew, M.S. (eds) Principles of Visual Information Retrieval. Advances in Pattern Recognition. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3702-3_13
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