reviewACM Computing SurveysApr 1, 2008Closed access

Image retrieval

Pennsylvania State University

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Abstract

We have witnessed great interest and a wealth of promise in content-based image retrieval as an emerging technology. While the last decade laid foundation to such promise, it also paved the way for a large number of new techniques and systems, got many new people involved, and triggered stronger association of weakly related fields. In this article, we survey almost 300 key theoretical and empirical contributions in the current decade related to image retrieval and automatic image annotation, and in the process discuss the spawning of related subfields. We also discuss significant challenges involved in the adaptation of existing image retrieval techniques to build systems that can be useful in the real world.…

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3,012
total citations
FWCI
337.87
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100%
References
286
Citations per year

Authors

4

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Keywords
  • Computer science
  • Image retrieval
  • Information retrieval
  • Automatic image annotation
  • Key (lock)
  • Annotation
  • Image (mathematics)
  • Process (computing)
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