Project IST - ARTISTE – An
Integrated Art Analysis and Navigation Environment
Review Meeting:
London, V&A, June 22, 2001
Retrieve database
image signature
For all database images
Query Image
MNS
More database
images?
No
Generate pairwise
similarity matrix
between query and
database feature sets
Yes
Store
similarity
result
Produce stable
marriage match
between sets, sum
pairwise distances
Order and rank results
MNS Comparison
Query Image
Database Images
Feature similarity matrix
query
1
. 0.94
2
. 0.82
3
. 0.53
4
. 0.48
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Distance
between the
query and the
current
database
image
Sum of the
distance
between
matching
colour pairs
Summed
threshold
for all
unmatched
colour pairs
(penalty)