Photobook: tools for content-based manipulation of image databases

Alexander P. Pentland; Rosalind W. Picard; S. Scarloff

doi:10.1117/12.171786

1 April 1994 Photobook: tools for content-based manipulation of image databases

Alexander P. Pentland, Rosalind W. Picard, S. Scarloff

Proceedings Volume 2185, Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases II; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.171786
Event: IS&T/SPIE 1994 International Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology, 1994, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

We describe the Photobook system, which is a set of interactive tools for browsing and searching images and image sequences. These tools differ from those used in standard image databases in that they make direct use of the image content rather than relying on annotations. Direct search on image content is made possible by use of semantics-preserving image compression, which reduces images to a small set of perceptually-significant coefficients. We describe three Photobook tools in particular: one that allows search based on grey-level appearance, one that uses 2D shape, and a third that allows search based on textural properties.

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Alexander P. Pentland, Rosalind W. Picard, and S. Scarloff "Photobook: tools for content-based manipulation of image databases", Proc. SPIE 2185, Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases II, (1 April 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.171786

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