An Information Retrieval Approach for Image Databases

Summary: Recasts image-database retrieval as information retrieval rather than exact record matching, modeling uncertainty from image analysis and semantic interpretation. Supports imprecise, weighted queries and relevance-based ranking to improve retrieval effectiveness. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8295
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1992
Pagerank: 6.0053672e-05
Overall Rank: 6,020 | 58.70%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. F. Rabitti (Institute for Information Processing, National Research Council)
2. P. Savino (Institute for Information Processing, National Research Council)

BibTeX Citation

@article{rabitti_vldb92,
        title = {{An Information Retrieval Approach for Image Databases}},
        author = {Rabitti, F. and Savino, P.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '92},
        pages = {574},
        year = {1992}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,364	Reasoning about Spatial Relationships in Picture Retrieval Systems	1994	VLDB	5.6331465e-05
13,014	Similarity based Retrieval of Pictures Using Indices on Spatial Relationships	1995	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,768	An Example of Knowledge-Based Query Processing in a CAD/CAM DBMS	1984	VLDB	6.0945305e-05

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