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In this paper a novel solution is proposed for error tolerant graph matching. The solution belongs to the class of edit distance based techniques. In particular, the original edit distance based framework is extended so as to account for a new operator to support node merging during the matching process.
An analysis of the computational complexity of the proposed solution is presented as well as some experimental results about its application to retrieval by content of color images.
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Berretti, S., Del Bimbo, A., Pala, P. (2004). A Graph Edit Distance Based on Node Merging. In: Enser, P., Kompatsiaris, Y., O’Connor, N.E., Smeaton, A.F., Smeulders, A.W.M. (eds) Image and Video Retrieval. CIVR 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3115. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27814-6_55
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