Intelligent Mining in Image Databases, with Applications to Satellite Imaging and to Web Search
Stephen Gibson, Владик Крейнович, Luc Longpré, Brian S. Penn, Scott A. Starks · Studies in fuzziness and soft computing · 2001
An important part of our knowledge is in the form of images. For example, a large amount of geophysical and environmental data comes from satellite photos, a large amount of the information stored on the Web is in the form of images, etc. It is therefore desirable to use this image information in data mining. Unfortunately, most existing data mining techniques have been designed for mining numerical data and are thus not well suited for image databases. Hence, new methods are needed for image mining. In this paper, we show how data mining can be used to find common patterns in several images. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.