Collection of Material Related to Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR)

1. Limitations of Content-based Image Retrieval This is the latest (final?) version, posted on June 11, 2008. (The first draft was posted in June 2007 and the second in May 2008.)
   
   1. Web Test Results of Content-based Image Retrieval. (Appendix A)
      
   2. Simulating What is Happening in Current CBIR systems (Appendix B)
      
   3. Color Histograms Provide No Semantic Information (Appendix C)
      
   4. Edge Histograms Provide No Semantic Information Either (Appendix D)
      
   5. "The Holy Grail of Multimedia Information Retrieval: So Close or Yet So Far Away?" - An Answer A three page summary of the issues discussed in the form of an answer to a question raised in an editorial in the IEEE Proceedings.
      
2. Some images that challenge current CBIR methodologies
   • Meeting Some of the Challenges Posted July 7, 2008.
     
3. An Evaluation of the Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) Draft posted August 25, 2008.
   

Index re-organized on August 25, 2008.

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