Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:26:32 BST CiteULike: mthomure's library [365 articles] http://www.citeulike.org/user/mthomure/article/2665020 CiteULike.org en-gb Copyright © 2004-2008 citeulike.org http://www.citeulike.org/user/mthomure/article/2665020 <i>Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on, Vol. 2, No. 3. (2000), pp. 164-171.</i><br /><br />A currently important research field in information sciences is the management of nontraditional distributed multimedia databases. Two related key issues are to achieve an efficient content-based query by example retrieval and a fast response time. This paper presents the architecture of a distributed image retrieval system which provides novel solutions to these key issues. In particular, a method to quantify the effectiveness of low level visual descriptors in database query tasks is presented. The results are also used to improve the system response time, which is an important issue when querying very large databases. A new mechanism to adapt system query strategies to user behavior is also introduced in order to improve the effectiveness of relevance feedback and overall system response time. Finally, the issue of browsing multiple distributed databases is considered and a solution is proposed using multidimensional scaling techniques Image retrieval by examples R Brunelli O Mich doi:10.1109/6046.865481 Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on, Vol. 2, No. 3. (2000), pp. 164-171. 2008-04-14T01:59:54-00:00 2000 Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on 2 3 164 171 cbir