Supporting Ranked Boolean Similarity Queries in MARS - Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on

To address the emerging needs of applications that require access to and retrieval of multimedia objects, we are developing the Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval System (MARS) [29]. In this paper, we concentrate on the retrieval sulbsystem of MARS and its support for content-based queries over image databases. Content-based retrieval techniques have been extensively studied for textual documents in the area of automatic information retrieval [40], [4]. This paper describes how these techniques can be adapted for ranked retrieval over image databases. Specifically, we discuss the ranking and retrieval algorithms developed in MARS based on the Boolean retrieval model and describe the results of our experiments that demonstrate t h e effectiveness of the developed model for image retrieval.