<title>Efficiency issues related to probability density function comparison</title>
Author(s) -
Patrick Kelly,
T. M. Can,
Julio E. Barros
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
proceedings of spie, the international society for optical engineering/proceedings of spie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.192
H-Index - 176
eISSN - 1996-756X
pISSN - 0277-786X
DOI - 10.1117/12.234808
Subject(s) - probability density function , computer science , gaussian , speedup , feature vector , representation (politics) , computation , gaussian function , feature (linguistics) , algorithm , function (biology) , probability distribution , measure (data warehouse) , similarity (geometry) , pattern recognition (psychology) , image (mathematics) , artificial intelligence , data mining , mathematics , statistics , linguistics , physics , philosophy , quantum mechanics , evolutionary biology , politics , biology , political science , law , operating system
The CANDID project (Comparison Algorithm for Navigating Digital Image Databases) employs probabilitydensity functions (PDFs) of localized feature information to represent the content of an image for search andretrieval purposes. A similarity measure between PDFs is used to identify database images that are similar toa user-provided query image. Unfortunately, signature comparison involving PDFs is a very time-consumingoperation. In this paper, we look into some efficiency considerations...
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