Color Spatial Arrangement for Image Retrieval by Visual Similarity
Stefano Berretti and Alberto Del Bimbo

10.1 Introduction .............................................................................................................
       10.1.1 Related Work on Modeling Techniques for Representing Spatial Relationships .........................
10.2 Modeling Spatial Arrangements of Color ............................................................................
       10.2.1 Representing Spatial Relationships between Color Clusters...............................................
                 10.2.1.1 Weighted Walkthroughs.............................................................................
                 10.2.1.2 Properties of Weighted Walkthroughs.............................................................
                 10.2.1.3 Distance between Weighted Walkthroughs .......................................................
10.3 Efficient Computation of Weights ...................................................................................
       10.3.1 Representation of Spatial Entities ...........................................................................
       10.3.2 Computation of the Four Weights ............................................................................
10.4 Graph Representation and Comparison of Spatial Arrangements ................................................
10.5 A Retrieval System .....................................................................................................
       10.5.1 Retrieval Examples..............................................................................................
10.6 User-Based Assessment ...............................................................................................
       10.6.1 A Benchmark Database of Basic Spatial Arrangements of Color............................................
       10.6.2 Ground Truth ....................................................................................................
       10.6.3 Results............................................................................................................
       10.6.4 A Benchmark Database of Real Images ......................................................................
10.7 Conclusions .............................................................................................................
References.....................................................................................................................