Beyond query by example
Simone Santini, Ramesh Chandra Jain · 1998
This paper considers some of the problems we found trying to atract mtig from image in database applications, and propos= some wa~s to solve th-~k argue that the m-g of an image xs an N-d@ed enti@, and it is not in general possible to derive from m image the mwning that the user of the database ~ts.&tier, we shodd be contrmt tith a wrreKation between the intended meaning ad simple perceptual du~that databases -~.&ther than ~orking on the impossible task of ~g unaxnblguous meaning from ixnag~, we shoxdd provide the user with the took he needs to tire the database in the arm of the f=ture space where %ter~~dges are -.-.. .-=.