Abstract

The perception of spatial relationships among objects in a picture is one of the important selection criteria to discriminate and retrieve images in an image database system. The data structure called 2-D string, proposed by Chang et al., is adopted to represent the symbolic pictures. When there are a large number of images in the image database and each image contains many objects, the processing time for image retrievals is tremendous. It is essential to develop efficient access methods for these retrievals. In this paper, the efficient methods for retrieval by objects, retrieval by pairwise spatial relationships and retrieval by subpicture are proposed. All the methods are based on the superimposed coding technique.

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