Smart Agent: A New Approach to Visual Information Retrieval

摘要

This paper presents an agent-oriented approach to visual information retrieval. A new data model is introduced to represent image content in a top-down fashion and a deductive agent-oriented database structure is proposed to facilitate visual information representation, indexing, query, searching and maintenance. In addition, the integration of techniques in image understanding and information retrieval is adopted for effective and efficient visual information retrieval.