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This article provides a framework to describe and compare content-based image retrieval systems. Sixteen contemporary systems are described in detail, in terms of the following technical aspects: querying, relevance feedback, result presentation, features, and matching. For a total of 44 systems we list the features that are used. Of these systems, 35 use any kind of color features, 28 use texture, and only 25 use shape features.
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Veltkamp, R.C., Tanase, M., Sent, D. (2001). Features in Content-Based Image Retrieval Systems: A Survey. In: Veltkamp, R.C., Burkhardt, H., Kriegel, HP. (eds) State-of-the-Art in Content-Based Image and Video Retrieval. Computational Imaging and Vision, vol 22. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9664-0_5
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