METHOD OF REPRESENTING AT LEAST ONE IMAGE AND IMAGE GROUP, REPRESENTATIONS OF IMAGE OR IMAGE GROUP, METHOD OF COMPARING IMAGE AND/OR IMAGE GROUP, METHOD OF ENCODING IMAGE OR IMAGE GROUP, METHOD OF DECODING IMAGE OR IMAGE SEQUENCE, USE OF ENCODED DATA, APPARATUS OF REPRESENTING IMAGE OR IMAGE GROUP, APPARATUS OF COMPARING IMAGE AND/OR IMAGE GROUP, COMPUTER PROGRAM, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide descriptors for representing images or an image group.;SOLUTION: A method of representing and analyzing images includes producing a plurality of descriptors of an image at one or more scales and for one or more color channels. The descriptors include generating descriptors capturing color content and color interrelation information within the regions, associating the descriptors in a plurality of ways based on their characteristics such as scale, color channel, and features, and comparing such representations of images to assess the similarity of images.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI