Integrating Image Content and its Associated Text in a Web Image Retrieval Agent

Intelligent Integration and Use of Text, Image, Video, and Audio Corpora

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Papers from the 1997 AAAI Spring Symposium

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In this paper we present a search engine that traverse the Web to find images. Our approach combines a wavelet-based content image retrieval technique with a traditional text retrieval method. The two methods are applied independently too build two indices and then combined in a similarity metric which is used for retrieval.