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In this article the use of statistical, low-level shape features in content-based image retrieval is studied. The emphasis is on such techniques which do not demand object segmentation. PicSOM, the image retrieval system used in the experiments, requires that features are represented by constant-sized feature vectors for which the Euclidean distance can be used as a similarity measure. The shape features suggested here are edge histograms and Fourier-transform-based features computed from the image after edge detection in Cartesian or polar coordinate planes. The results show that both local and global shape features are important clues of shapes in an image.
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Brandt, S., Laaksonen, J. & Oja, E. Statistical Shape Features for Content-Based Image Retrieval. Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision 17, 187–198 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020689721567
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