Fuzzy segmentation of color images and indexing of fuzzy regions

This paper focuses on applications of fuzzy segmentation in region indexing and image retrieval. First, our algorithm of fuzzy segmentation is shortly explained. Some features characterizing a fuzzy region are then defined, and a distance between fuzzy regions is proposed. This distance can be used to rank regions on color and/or shape features or to perform a partial request from a image, request consisting in a set of regions.

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