Spatial color image retrieval without segmentation using thumbnails and the Earth Mover's Distance
Thomas Hurtut, Haroldo Dalazoana, Yann Gousseau, Francis Schmitt · Conference on Colour in Graphics Imaging and Vision · 2006
We introduce a spatial color image retrieval method which does not include any segmentation step. This method relies on small image thumbnails and the Earth Mover's Distance (EMD). We then derive an unsupervised matching criterion using an a contrario approach. Experiments are performed on a database of illuminated manuscripts.