The optimisation of elementary and integrative content based image retrieval techniques

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... THE OPTIMISATION OF ELEMENTARY AND INTEGRATIVE CONTENT- BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL TECHNIQUES HOSAIN ABOAISHA A thesis submitted to the University of Huddersfield in partial fulfilment of the requirements ... obtained the mean and standard deviation of the horizontal, vertical and diagonal data spreads They then computed the histogram colour moments by using the mean and standard deviation of the horizontal, ... )| Equation 2-1 represent the query image and one of the images in the image set, ℎ and ℎ represent the coordinate values of the feature vectors of these images respectively Note that a smaller...