Indexation et Recherche d'Images

This paper presents the problems that arise when retrieving images from a large image base by an automatic indexing process, as done with written documents. The tools used to characterize the images and retrieve image data are still sketchy, and usually use global features and illumination information. We plead for the use of local characteristics, even though they have the drawback of requiring a segmentation stage. We show by a detailed example that some elements of solutions already exist, and that they show some directions for future research. This paper also illustrates the interest of the classical results in pattern recognition in this kind of problems.

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