The data structure called2d string to represent symbolic pictures was proposed by Chang et al. It allows a natural way to construct iconic indexes for pictures. A new spatial knowledge representation of a 2d C-string...
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The data structure called2d string to represent symbolic pictures was proposed by Chang et al. It allows a natural way to construct iconic indexes for pictures. A new spatial knowledge representation of a 2d C-string with accompanying cutting mechanism and a set of spatial operators are proposed. 2d C-string is more characteristic of spatial knowledge in images and is more efficient in representation and manipulation of images. Since a spatial relationship is a fuzzy concept, the capability of similarity retrieval is essential in image database systems. The spatial query and spatial reasoning based on a 2d C-string representation are presented. The similarity measure is defined and the algorithm for similarity retrieval of iconic images is also proposed.
The data structure called2d string to represent symbolic pictures was proposed by Chang et al. It allows a natural way to construct iconic indexes for pictures. Jungert has extended2d strings to represent more types...
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The data structure called2d string to represent symbolic pictures was proposed by Chang et al. It allows a natural way to construct iconic indexes for pictures. Jungert has extended2d strings to represent more types of spatial relationships between picture objects, but the operators and the derived knowledge cannot be stored in a unified structure. In this paper, a new spatial knowledge representation 2d C-string with accompanied cutting mechanism and a set of spatial operators are proposed. 2d C-string is more characteristic of spatial knowledge in images and is more efficient in representation and manipulation of images. The cutting and reconstruction algorithms for 2d C-string representation of symbolic pictures are also developed.
Based on the 2d-H string, an alternative spatial data structure, called the adaptive 2d-H string, is proposed for representing symbolic pictures. We present an algorithm for converting symbolic pictures of any size in...
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Based on the 2d-H string, an alternative spatial data structure, called the adaptive 2d-H string, is proposed for representing symbolic pictures. We present an algorithm for converting symbolic pictures of any size into adaptive 2d-H strings. In this paper, we will also analyze and compare the needed storage space of 2d-H strings and that of adaptive 2d-H strings. The results show that our adaptive 2d-H stringdemonstrates better performance in some cases. Besides, from the experimental results, we see that our adaptive 2d-H string can work well for many unbalanced non-square small pictures, which frequently exist in our real environment.
A 2d stringdata structure allows for efficient spatial reasoning on an image database for query and retrieval. A 7dstring can be converted to a set of triples leading to an elegant O(1) solution for image retrieval ...
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A 2d stringdata structure allows for efficient spatial reasoning on an image database for query and retrieval. A 7dstring can be converted to a set of triples leading to an elegant O(1) solution for image retrieval with simple queries using a perfect hash table. For complex queries, the retrieval complexity is linear in this approach anddepends on the number of possible pairings of picture objects in the query. The perfect hash table computation for this problem is mappeddirectly to a permutation problem. In an earlier paper [S. K. Bhatia and C. L. Sabharwal, Pattern Recognition 27, 365-376 (1974)], we presented a set of heuristics that result in a fast computation of associated values, for picture objects, used in the calculation of hash addresses. In this paper, we present an additional heuristic leading to a 90% reduction in search space over our earlier algorithm. The new heuristic promises to generate a minimal perfect hash function for each experimental data set, which was not possible with the earlier algorithms. Mathematical analysis of complexity of the algorithms is presented and is supported by experimental results.
In this paper a new indexing method, called multidimensional interval filter, is proposed to speed up processing of subpicture query. The basic idea is the transformation of spatial information of each image into a mu...
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In this paper a new indexing method, called multidimensional interval filter, is proposed to speed up processing of subpicture query. The basic idea is the transformation of spatial information of each image into a multidimensional rectangle. Processing of subpicture query becomes that of rectangle containment query which can be further speeded up by some well-developed spatial access methods such as R-Trees. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
In this paper, we propose an efficient iconic indexing strategy called bit-pattern-based matrix (BP matrix) for symbolic pictures, in which each spatial relationship between any two objects along the x-axis (or y-axis...
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In this paper, we propose an efficient iconic indexing strategy called bit-pattern-based matrix (BP matrix) for symbolic pictures, in which each spatial relationship between any two objects along the x-axis (or y-axis) is represented as a binary-bit pattern, and is recorded in a matrix. There are 12 bits in each bit pattern. When the bits in a certain subset of those 12 bits are set to 1, they denote a certain spatial relationship. Bit-wise-and/bit-wise-or operations are used for query processing;therefore, they are efficient enough as compared to the previous approaches. From our simulation, we show that the proposed BP matrix strategy requires shorter time for query processing than the generalized prime-number-based matrix strategy. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
We propose a scheme for determining whether or not a pattern of icons is contained in a subject image. For two icons, their spatial relationship is simplified to nine relationships, according to the relations of thei...
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We propose a scheme for determining whether or not a pattern of icons is contained in a subject image. For two icons, their spatial relationship is simplified to nine relationships, according to the relations <, =, or > of their X and Y coordinates. Our spatial match retrieval scheme is base upon the Chinese remainder theorem. For a subject pattern image, a set of keys associated to all the icons within the image to reveal the spatial relationships is computed and stored. An algorithm to determine whether or not a pattern of icons is a subpicture of a subject image is also presented.
In this paper, a novel scheme for representing symbolic images in a symbolic image database (SId) is proposed. The proposed scheme is based on triangular spatial relationship (TSR) [Pattern Recognition Lett. 22 (2001)...
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In this paper, a novel scheme for representing symbolic images in a symbolic image database (SId) is proposed. The proposed scheme is based on triangular spatial relationship (TSR) [Pattern Recognition Lett. 22 (2001) 999]. The scheme preserves TSR among the components in a symbolic image by the use of quadruples. A SId is created through the construction of B-tree, an efficient multilevel indexing structure. A methodology to retrieve similar images for a given query image is also presented. The presented retrieval model has logarithmic search time complexity. The study made in this work reveals that the model bears various advantages when compared to other existing models and could be extended towards dynamic databases. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
In image database systems, symbolic pictures are represented by two-dimensional (2d) strings that are converted into triples. Each triple is mapped to a unique hash address for timely retrieval of pictures, reducing t...
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In image database systems, symbolic pictures are represented by two-dimensional (2d) strings that are converted into triples. Each triple is mapped to a unique hash address for timely retrieval of pictures, reducing the pattern-matching problem corresponding to a query to that of computation of a hash function. The values associated with the picture objects are used to compute hash addresses for triples developed from the query. Heuristics are proposed to speed up the computation of the associated values for the picture objects. Experimental results show that the new algorithm achieves almost a 90%. gain, in search space, over existing algorithms to compute the associated values.
Spatial relationships are important ingredients of spatial access methods in retrieval mechanism systems for pictorial or multimedia databases. We suggest a one-to-one mapping method of retrieving the symbolic picture...
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Spatial relationships are important ingredients of spatial access methods in retrieval mechanism systems for pictorial or multimedia databases. We suggest a one-to-one mapping method of retrieving the symbolic pictures in a pictorial database based upon the spatial relationships among the objects in the picture. In our mechanism, each picture or query is transformed into a set of ordered triples (O-i, O-j, r(ij))'s, where O-i and O-j are two objects and r(ij) is the spatial relationship between O-i and O-j. Then we construct a one-to-one mapping table for all (O-i, O-j, r(ij))'s of all the pictures in the pictorial database. By searching the preconstructed mapping table for all of the (O-i, O-j, r(ij))'s associated with a query, the desired pictures can be easily determined. Besides, the proposed spatial match retrieval approach can be easily embedded into various systems such as parallelism systems or distributeddatabase system. (C) 1998 Published by Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.
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