Image database

doi:10.1016/0262-8856(85)90059-9

Image and Vision Computing

Volume 3, Issue 3, August 1985, Pages 111-117

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Abstract

The notion of the image database is still unstructured. We examine recent work under this heading as well as related work in computer vision and conventional database technology. It appears that the principal difficulties in fusing the two disciplines are: the arbitrary nature of discrete representations of continuous scenes; and the lack of linear ordering in two dimensions. A possible solution to these problems is suggested.

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Image database

Abstract

Pictorial data-base systems

IEEE Comput.

Image database systems: a survey

Pattern Recognition

Digital image processing—a systems approach

Design of an image database

Image database management for pattern information processing studies

Image access protocols for image processing software

IEEE Trans. Software Eng.

Transportable “package” software

Software—Pract. Exper.