Efficient Matching and Indexing of Graph Models in Content-Based Retrieval

@article{Berretti2001EfficientMA,
  title={Efficient Matching and Indexing of Graph Models in Content-Based Retrieval},
  author={Stefano Berretti and A. Bimbo and Enrico Vicario},
  journal={IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell.},
  year={2001},
  volume={23},
  pages={1089-1105}
}
In retrieval from image databases, evaluation of similarity, based both on the appearance of spatial entities and on their mutual relationships, depends on content representation based on attributed relational graphs. This kind of modeling entails complex matching and indexing, which presently prevents its usage within comprehensive applications. In this paper, we provide a graph-theoretical formulation for the problem of retrieval based on the joint similarity of individual entities and of… 
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