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We investigate image retrieval using interest point descriptors. New geographic information systems such as Google Earth and Microsoft Virtual Earth are providing increased access to remote sensed imagery. Content-based access to this data would support a much richer interaction than is currently possible. Interest point descriptors have proven surprisingly effective for a range of computer vision problems. We investigate their application to performing similarity retrieval in a ground-truth dataset manually constructed from 1-m IKONOS satellite imagery. We compare results of using quantized versus full descriptors, Euclidean versus Mahalanobis distance measures, and methods for comparing the sets of descriptors associated with query and target images.
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Newsam, S., Yang, Y. (2007). Geographic Image Retrieval Using Interest Point Descriptors. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4842. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76856-2_27
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