Illumination Invariance and Object Model in Content-Based Image and Video Retrieval

Abstract

With huge amounts of multimedia information connected to the global informationnetwork #Internet#, e#cient and e#ective image retrieval from large image and videorepositories has become an imminent research issue. This article presents our researchin the C-BIRD #Content-Based Image Retrieval in Digital-libraries# project. In additionto the use of common features such as color, texture, shape and their conjuncts,and the combined content-based and description-based techniques, it is...