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The huge amount of image collections connected to multimedia applications has brought forth several approaches to content-based image retrieval, that means retrieving images based on their visual content instead of textual descriptions. In this paper, we present a system, called VIRMA (Visual Image Retrieval by Shape MAtching), which combines different techniques from Computer Vision to perform content-based image retrieval based on shape matching. The architecture of the VIRMA system is portrayed and algorithms underpinning the developed prototype are briefly described. Application of VIRMA to a database of real-world pictorial images shows its effectiveness in visual image retrieval.
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Castellano, G., Castiello, C., Fanelli, A.M. (2006). VIRMA: Visual Image Retrieval by Shape MAtching. In: Esposito, F., Raś, Z.W., Malerba, D., Semeraro, G. (eds) Foundations of Intelligent Systems. ISMIS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4203. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11875604_24
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