Indexing structures for content-based retrieval of large image databases: A review

Abstract

Content-based image retrieval is a focused problem in current multimedia domain. To obtain better searching results more efficiently in some applications, a proper indexing structure is indispensable. This paper reviews the typical indexing structures in content-based image retrieval at first. Then based on the comparison of their different performance, the paper uncovers the problems in those structures and points out the development direction to improve the performance of CBIR in the future. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.