Abstract

The design of an effective architecture for image retrieval requires careful consideration of the interplay between the three major components of a retrieval system: feature transformation, feature representation, and similarity function. We present a review of ongoing work on a decision theoretic formulation of the retrieval problem that enables the design of systems where all components are optimized with respect to the same end-to-end performance criteria: the minimization of the probability of retrieval error. In addition to some previously published results on the theoretical characterization of the impact of the feature transformation and representation in the probability of error, we present an efficient algorithm for optimal feature selection. Experimental results show that decision-theoretic retrieval performs well on color, texture, and generic image databases in terms of both retrieval accuracy and perceptual relevance of similarity judgments.© (2002) COPYRIGHT SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.

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