Summary: Spatial Reasoning for Image Retrieval
Marco Aiello Carlos Areces Maarten de Rijke
ILLC, University of Amsterdam
Plantage Muidergracht 24, 1018 TV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
E­mail: faiellom,carlos,mdrg@wins.uva.nl
Abstract
Building upon the description logic of concrete
domains introduced by Baader and Hanschke,
we provide a system which is aimed at en­
hancing image retrieval with the ability to per­
form spatial reasoning. In this early stage of
our research we focus on obtaining a formalism
which is expressive enough to increase the use­
fulness of expensive picture descriptions (com­
mon in content based image retrieval systems)
by means of spatial reasoning.
1 Introduction
With the continuing advances in multi­media technology,
the amount of information at our disposal is not only
increasing in quantity but also in variety. Nowadays,

Source: Aiello, Marco - Institute for Mathematics and Computing Science, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

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