Fast re-ranking of visual search results by example selection

In this paper we present a simple, novel method to use state-of-the-art image concept detectors and publicly available image search engines to retrieve images for semantically more complex queries from local databases without re-indexing of the database. Our low-key, data- driven method for associative recognition of unknown, or more elaborate,...

COSFIRE: A Brain-Inspired Approach to Visual Pattern Recognition

The primate visual system has an impressive ability to generalize and to discriminate between numerous objects and it is robust to many geometrical transformations as well as lighting conditions. The study of the visual system has been an active reasearch field in neuropysiology for more than half a century. The construction of computational...