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Title: Query by image example: The CANDID approach

Conference ·
OSTI ID:28339
;  [1];  [2]
  1. Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States). Computer Research and Applications Group
  2. Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States). Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

CANDID (Comparison Algorithm for Navigating Digital Image Databases) was developed to enable content-based retrieval of digital imagery from large databases using a query-by-example methodology. A user provides an example image to the system, and images in the database that are similar to that example are retrieved. The development of CANDID was inspired by the N-gram approach to document fingerprinting, where a ``global signature`` is computed for every document in a database and these signatures are compared to one another to determine the similarity between any two documents. CANDID computes a global signature for every image in a database, where the signature is derived from various image features such as localized texture, shape, or color information. A distance between probability density functions of feature vectors is then used to compare signatures. In this paper, the authors present CANDID and highlight two results from their current research: subtracting a ``background`` signature from every signature in a database in an attempt to improve system performance when using inner-product similarity measures, and visualizing the contribution of individual pixels in the matching process. These ideas are applicable to any histogram-based comparison technique.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-36
OSTI ID:
28339
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-95-374; CONF-950226-12; ON: DE95006284; TRN: AHC29510%%144
Resource Relation:
Conference: SPIE `95: SPIE conference on optics, electro-optics, and laser application in science, engineering and medicine, San Jose, CA (United States), 5-14 Feb 1995; Other Information: PBD: [1995]
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English