Qcluster: Relevance Feedback Using Adaptive Clustering for Content-Based Image Retrieval

Summary: Qcluster introduces adaptive classification and cluster-merging for disjunctive, multi-cluster relevance feedback in large-scale image retrieval. It uses linear-transform invariant measures to make retrieval robust to cluster shapes, achieving significant gains over query expansion and query-point movement on MARS with fast convergence to the user’s true need. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3528
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2003
Pagerank: 5.3088343e-05
Overall Rank: 9,174 | 37.06%
DOI: 10.1145/872757.872829

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Authors

1. Deok-Hwan Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
2. Chin-Wan Chung (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{kim_sigmod03,
        title = {{Qcluster: Relevance Feedback Using Adaptive Clustering for Content-Based Image Retrieval}},
        author = {Kim, Deok-Hwan and Chung, Chin-Wan},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '03},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/872757.872829},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/872757.872829},
        year = {2003}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,966	VOCAL: Video Organization and Interactive Compositional AnaLytics	2022	CIDR	6.0255527e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
353	The Query By Image Content (QBIC) System	1995	SIGMOD	0.00020370587
1,862	MindReader: Querying databases through multiple examples	1998	VLDB	9.5951515e-05
3,835	FALCON: Feedback Adaptive Loop for Content-Based Retrieval	2000	VLDB	7.0835179e-05
5,042	FeedbackBypass: A New Approach to Interactive Similarity Query Processing	2001	VLDB	6.3896532e-05
8,178	Adaptable Similarity Search using Non-Relevant Information	2002	VLDB	5.4728384e-05

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