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Colour Adjacency Histograms for Image Matching

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The use of 2D colour adjacency histograms for image matching in image retrieval scenarios is investigated. We present an algorithm for extracting representative colours from an image and a new method for matching 1D colour histograms and 2D colour adjacency histograms obtained from images quantised using different colour palettes. An experimental evaluation of the matching performance is done.

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Walter G. Kropatsch Martin Kampel Allan Hanbury

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Hanbury, A., Marcotegui, B. (2007). Colour Adjacency Histograms for Image Matching. In: Kropatsch, W.G., Kampel, M., Hanbury, A. (eds) Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns. CAIP 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4673. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74272-2_53

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