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This page contains a list of recommended reading on CBIR benchmarking and related topics. A major list is given in the main resource page
The list below is far from exhaustive. If you know of a reference that should be included there, please send me a mail.

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@inproceedings{All1996,
    author = {James Allan},
    title = {Incremental Relevance Feedback for Information Filtering},
    year = {1996},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'96)},
    address = {Zürich, Switzerland},
}

@inproceedings{AlO1998,
    author = {Adil Alpkocak and Esen Ozkarahan},
    title = {Similarity search in content based multimedia retrieval using Spatial Grid Files},
    year = {1998},
    booktitle = {Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems III (VV02)},
    address = {Boston, Massachusetts, USA},
    note = {(SPIE Symposium on Voice, Video and Data Communications)},
}

@inproceedings{BCC1993,
    author = {Belkin, N. J. and Cool, C. and Croft, W. B. and Callan, J. P.},
    title = {The effect of multiple query representations on Information retrieval system performance},
    year = {1993},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 16st Annual International {ACM SIGIR} Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval},
    address = {Pittsburgh, PA, USA},
}

@inproceedings{BCG1998,
    author = {Serge Belongie and Chad Carson and Hayit Greenspan and Jitendra Malik},
    title = {Color-- and Texture--based Image Segmentation Using EM and Its Application to Content--Based Image Retrieval},
    year = {1998},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'98)},
    address = {Bombay, India},
}

@inproceedings{BDC2000,
    author = {Beretti, S. and Del Bimbo, A. and Vicario, E.},
    title = {The computational Aspect of Retrieval by Spatial Arrangement},
    year = {2000},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2000)},
    address = {Barcelona, Spain},
}

@inproceedings{BDP2001,
    author = {Beretti, S. and Del Bimbo, A. and Pala, P.},
    title = {content--based retrieval of 3D cellular structures},
    year = {2001},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the second International Conference on Multimedia and Exposition (ICME'2001)},
    address = {Tokyo, Japan},
}

@inproceedings{BFG1996,
    author = {Bach, Jeffrey R. and Fuller, Charles and Gupta, Armarnath and Hampapur, Arun and Horowitz, Bradley and Humphrey, Rich and Jain, Ramesh and Shu, Chiao--Fe},
    title = {The Virage Image Search engine: An open framework for image management},
    year = {1996},
    booktitle = {Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases IV},
    address = {San Jose, CA, USA},
}

@inproceedings{BiK1995,
    author = {Biron, Paul V. and Kraft, Donald H.},
    title = {New methods for relevance feedback: Improving Information Retrieval Performance},
    year = {1995},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACMSAC1995)},
    address = {Nashville, TN, USA},
}

@inproceedings{BiP1996,
    author = {Bimbo, A. Del and P. Pala},
    title = {Shape Indexing by Multi--scale Representation},
    year = {1996},
    booktitle = {Image Databases and Multi--Media Search},
    address = {Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands},
}

@article{Bor1989,
    author = {Borgman, C. L.},
    title = {All users of information retrieval systems are not created equal: an exploration into individual differences},
    journal = {Information Processing and Management},
    year = {1989},
    volume = {25},
    pages = {225--250},
}

@inproceedings{CBG1997,
    author = {Chad Carson and Serge Belongie and Hayit Greenspan and Jitendra Malik},
    title = {Region--Based Image Querying},
    year = {1997},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'97)},
    address = {San Juan, Puerto Rico},
}

@inproceedings{CCL2001,
    author = {Chang, Edward and Cheng, Kwang--Ting and Lai, Wei--Cheng and Wu, Ching--Tung and Chang, Chengwei and Wu, Yi--Leh},
    title = {PBIR: Perception--based Image Retrieval -- A System that Learns Subjective Image Query Concepts},
    year = {2001},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (ACM MIR 2001)},
    address = {Ottawa, Canada},
}

@inproceedings{CGM1997,
    author = {Ingemar J. Cox and Joumana Ghosn and Matt L. Miller and Thomas V. Papathomas and Peter N. Yianilos},
    title = {Hidden Annotation in Content Based Image Retrieval},
    year = {1997},
    booktitle = {IEEE Workshop on Content--based Access of Image and Video Libraries (CBAIVL'97)},
}

@inproceedings{ChH1998,
    author = {Miao Chunyan and Michael Junke Hu},
    title = {Querying and Navigating of Multimedia Objects},
    year = {1998},
    booktitle = {Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems III (VV02)},
    address = {Boston, Massachusetts, USA},
    note = {(SPIE Symposium on Voice, Video and Data Communications)},
}

@techreport{Cle1962,
    author = {Cleverdon, Cyril W.},
    title = {Report on the testing and analysis of an investigation into the comparative efficiency of indexing systems},
    year = {1962},
    address = {Cranfield, USA},
    institution = {Aslib Cranfield Research Project},
}

@inproceedings{CMM1998,
    author = {Ingemar J. Cox and Matthew L. Miller and Thomas P. Minka and Peter N. Yianilos},
    title = {An Optimized Interaction Strategy for Bayesian Relevance Feedback},
    year = {1998},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'98)},
    address = {Santa Barbara, California, USA},
}

@article{CMT1997,
    author = {N. W. Campbell and W. P. J. Mackeown and B. T Thomas and T. Troscianko},
    title = {Interpreting Image Databases by Region Classification},
    journal = {Pattern Recognition},
    year = {1997},
    volume = {30},
    number = {4},
    pages = {555--563},
    note = {(special edition on image databases)},
}

@inproceedings{CoG1997,
    author = {S. D. Cohen and L. J. Guibas},
    title = {Shape--based image retrieval using geometric hashing},
    year = {1997},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the ARPA Image Understanding Workshop},
}

@misc{CrT1997,
    author = {Bruce W. Croft and Howard R. Turtle},
    title = {Introduction to Information Retrieval},
,     howpublished = {Postgraduate Course: Ecole de printemps, 3ème cycle romand d'informatique, Leysin, Switzerland},
    year = {1997},
Postgraduate Course: Ecole de printemps, 3ème cycle romand d'informatique, Leysin, Switzerland, 1997. }

@inproceedings{CZL1998,
    author = {Edward Chang and James Zee Wang and Chen Li and Gio Wiederhold},
    title = {RIME: A Replicated Image Detector for the World-Wide Web},
    year = {1998},
    booktitle = {Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems III (VV02)},
    address = {Boston, Massachusetts, USA},
    note = {(SPIE Symposium on Voice, Video and Data Communications)},
}

@inproceedings{DeB1998,
    author = {Arjen P. de~Vries and Henk M. Blanken},
    title = {Database technology and the management of multimedia data in Mirror},
    year = {1998},
    booktitle = {Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems III (VV02)},
    address = {Boston, Massachusetts, USA},
    note = {(SPIE Symposium on Voice, Video and Data Communications)},
}

@inproceedings{DGM2000,
    author = {Duan, Lijuan and Gao, Wen and Ma, Jiyong},
    title = {A Rich get Richer Strategy for Content--Based image Retrieval},
    year = {2000},
    booktitle = {Fourth International Conference On Visual Information Systems (VISUAL'2000)},
    address = {Lyon, France},
}

@phdthesis{Dim1998,
    author = {Alexander Dimai},
    title = {Scene Configuration Based Preattentive Similarity Assessments for Content Based Image Retrieval},
    year = {1998},
    school = {Communications Technology Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH},
}

@inproceedings{DMR1998,
    author = {Madirakshi Das and R. Manmatha and Edward M. Riseman},
    title = {Indexing Flowers by Color Names using Domain Knowledge-driven Segmentation},
    year = {1998},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV'98)},
    address = {Princeton, NJ, USA},
}

@techreport{Do1998,
    author = {Minh N. Do},
    title = {Invariant Image Retrieval using Wavelet Maxima Moment},
    year = {1998},
    institution = {Laboratory for Audio-Visual Communications, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne},
    type = {Doctoral School Project Report},
}

@inproceedings{DoD2001,
    author = {Doulamis, Anastasios and Doulamis, Nikolaos},
    title = {Fuzzy histograms for efficient visual content representation: Application to content--based image retrieval},
    year = {2001},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the second International Conference on Multimedia and Exposition (ICME'2001)},
    address = {Tokyo, Japan},
}

@inproceedings{Dor2000,
    author = {Dori, Dov},
    title = {Cognitive Image Retrieval},
    year = {2000},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2000)},
    address = {Barcelona, Spain},
}

@inproceedings{DVB1999,
    author = {de Vries, Arjen P. and van Doorn, Mark G. L. M. and Blanken, Henk M. and Apers, Peter M. G.},
    title = {The Mirror MMDBMS architecture},
    year = {1999},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of 25th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB'99)},
    address = {Edinburgh, Scotland},
}

@inproceedings{Ege1996,
    author = {Egenhofer, Max J.},
    title = {Spatial--Query--by--Sketch},
    year = {1996},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages (VL 1996)},
}

@inproceedings{FDS1998,
    author = {Pascal Faudemay and Gwenaël Durand and Claude Seyrat and Nicolas Tondre},
    title = {Indexing and Retrieval of Multimedia Objects at Different Levels of Granularity},
    year = {1998},
    booktitle = {Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems III (VV02)},
    address = {Boston, Massachusetts, USA},
    note = {(SPIE Symposium on Voice, Video and Data Communications)},
}

@inproceedings{Fla2001,
    author = {Flank, Sharon},
    title = {Multimedia IR in context},
    year = {2001},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (ACM MIR 2001)},
    address = {Ottawa, Canada},
}

@article{FSN1995,
    author = {Myron Flickner and Harpreet Sawhney and Wayne Niblack and Jonathon Ashley and Qian Huang and Byron Dom and Monika Gorkani and Jim Hafner and Denis Lee and Dragutin Petkovic and David Steele and Peter Yanker},
    title = {Query by Image and Video Content: The QBIC System},
    journal = {IEEE Computer},
    year = {1995},
    volume = {28},
    number = {9},
    pages = {23--32},
}

@inproceedings{GCC2001,
    author = {Goh, King--Shy and Chang, Edward and Cheng, Kwang--Ting},
    title = {Support Vector Machine Pairwise Classifiers with Error Reduction for Image Classification},
    year = {2001},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (ACM MIR 2001)},
    address = {Ottawa, Canada},
}

@inproceedings{GeS1996,
    author = {Theo Gevers and Arnold W. M. Smeulders},
    title = {A Comparative Study of Several Color Models for Color Image Invariant Retrieval},
    year = {1996},
    booktitle = {Image Databases and Multi--Media Search},
    address = {Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands},
}

@inproceedings{Gev1997,
    author = {Gevers, Theo},
    title = {PicToSeek: A Content--Based Image Search System for the World Wide Web},
    year = {1997},
    booktitle = {Second International Conference On Visual Information Systems (VISUAL'97)},
    address = {San Diego, CA, USA},
}

@techreport{Gra1995,
    author = {Robert S. Gray},
    title = {content--based image retrieval: color and edges},
    number = {PCS-TR95-252},
    year = {1995},
    address = {Hanover, NH},
    institution = {Dartmouth College, Computer Science},
}

@article{GuR1997,
    author = {Amarnath Gupta and Ramesh Jain},
    title = {Visual Information Retrieval},
    journal = {Communications of the ACM},
    year = {1997},
    volume = {40},
    number = {5},
    pages = {70--79},
}

@inproceedings{HaM1996,
    author = {K.A. Han and Myaeng, S.-H.},
    title = {Image organization and retrieval with automatically constructed feature vectors},
    year = {1996},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'96)},
    address = {Zürich, Switzerland},
}

@inproceedings{Hea1997,
    author = {Glenn Healey},
    title = {Recognizing Objects in Color Images},
    year = {1997},
    booktitle = {The 10th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA'97)},
    address = {Lappeenranta, Finland},
}

@inproceedings{HGH1997,
    author = {Hampapur, Arun and Gupta, Armarnath and Horowitz, Bradley and Shu, Chaio--Fe and Fuller, Chuck and Bach, Jeffrey and Gorkani, Monika and Jain, Ramesh},
    title = {Virage Video Engine},
    year = {1997},
    booktitle = {Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases V},
}

@inproceedings{HKM1997,
    author = {Jing Huang and S. Ravi Kumar and Mandar Mitra and Wei-Jing Zhu and Ramin Zabih},
    title = {Image Indexing Using Color Correlograms},
    year = {1997},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'97)},
    address = {San Juan, Puerto Rico},
}

@inproceedings{HLD1997,
    author = {Huijsmans, D. P. and Lew, M.S. and Denteneer, D.},
    title = {Quality measures for interactive image retrieval with a performance evaluation of two 3x3 texel-based methods},
    year = {1997},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, (ICIAP'97)},
    address = {Florence, Italy},
}

@inproceedings{HoW1998,
    author = {Mark E. Hoffman and Edward K. Wong},
    title = {Content--Based Image Object Retrieval by Scale--Space Representation of Shapes},
    year = {1998},
    booktitle = {Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems III (VV02)},
    address = {Boston, Massachusetts, USA},
    note = {(SPIE Symposium on Voice, Video and Data Communications)},
}

@article{HSE1995,
    author = {James Hafner and Harpreet S. Sawhney and Will Equitz and Myron Flickner and Wayne Niblack},
    title = {Efficient Color Histogram Indexing for Quadratic Form Distance Functions},
    journal = {IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},
    year = {1995},
    volume = {17},
    number = {7},
    pages = {729--736},
}

@inproceedings{HSS1999,
    author = {Hoenkamp, Eduard and Stegeman, Onno and Schomaker, Lambert},
    title = {Supporting Content Retrieval from WWW via Basic Level Categories},
    year = {1999},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International {ACM SIGIR} Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval},
    address = {Berkeley, CA, USA},
}

@inproceedings{ISF1998,
    author = {Yoshiharu Ishikawa and Ravishankar Subramanya and Christos Faloutsos},
    title = {MindReader: Querying databases through multiple examples},
    year = {1998},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of 24th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB'98)},
    address = {New York, NY, USA},
}

@inproceedings{IyL1998,
    author = {Giridharan Iyengar and Andrew B. Lippman},
    title = {Semantically controlled content-based retrieval of video sequences},
    year = {1998},
    booktitle = {Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems III (VV02)},
    address = {Boston, Massachusetts, USA},
    note = {(SPIE Symposium on Voice, Video and Data Communications)},
}

@article{JaV1996,
    author = {Anil K. Jain and Aditya Vailaya},
    title = {Image Retrieval Using Color and Shape},
    journal = {Pattern Recognition},
    year = {1996},
    volume = {29},
    number = {8},
    pages = {1233--1244},
}

@inproceedings{JFS1995,
    author = {Charles E. Jacobs and Adam Finkelstein and David H. Salesin},
    title = {Fast Multiresolution Image Querying},
    year = {1995},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 95 (Los Angeles, California, August 6--11, 1995)},
    address = {New York},
}

@inproceedings{JKX1998,
    author = {Jesse S. Jin and Ruth Kurniawati and Guangyu Xu and Xuesheng Bai},
    title = {Using Browsing to Improve Content--Based Image Retrieval},
    year = {1998},
    booktitle = {Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems III (VV02)},
    address = {Boston, Massachusetts, USA},
    note = {(SPIE Symposium on Voice, Video and Data Communications)},
}

@inproceedings{JZL2001,
    author = {Jing, Fend and Zhang, Bo and Lin, Fuzong and Ma, Wei--Ying and Zhang, Hong--Jiang},
    title = {A novel region--based Image Retrieval Method Using Relevance Feedback},
    year = {2001},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (ACM MIR 2001)},
    address = {Ottawa, Canada},
}

@inproceedings{Kat1992,
    author = {Toshikazu Kato},
    title = {Database architecture for content--based image retrieval},
    year = {1992},
    booktitle = {Image Storage and Retrieval Systems},
    address = {San Jose, California},
}

@inproceedings{KCH1995,
    author = {Patrick M. Kelly and Michael Cannon and Donald R. Hush},
    title = {Query by image example: the CANDID approach},
    year = {1995},
    booktitle = {Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases III},
}

@inproceedings{KeJ2001,
    author = {Kerminen, Petteri and Jaakkola, Hannu},
    title = {Conceptual Modeling of Image's Content},
    year = {2001},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the Scandinavian-Japanese conferences on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases},
    address = {Maribor, Slovenia},
}

@inproceedings{KiK1997,
    author = {Kim, Yong--Sung and Kim, Whoi--Yul},
    title = {Content--Based Trademark Retrieval System Using visually salient features},
    year = {1997},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'97)},
    address = {San Juan, Puerto Rico},
}

@inproceedings{KLC1998,
    author = {Y. H. Kim and K. E. Lee and K. S. Choi and J. H. Yoo and P. K. Rhee and Y. C. Park},
    title = {Personalized Image Retrieval with User's Preference Model},
    year = {1998},
    booktitle = {Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems III (VV02)},
    address = {Boston, Massachusetts, USA},
    note = {(SPIE Symposium on Voice, Video and Data Communications)},
}

@inproceedings{KoK2001,
    author = {Kobayashi, Yuichi and Kato, Toshikazu},
    title = {The STIR System, Subjective Texture image retrieval system},
    year = {2001},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the second International Conference on Multimedia and Exposition (ICME'2001)},
    address = {Tokyo, Japan},
}

@inproceedings{KPB2001,
    author = {Ko, ByoungChul and Peng, Jing and Byun, Hyeran},
    title = {A new content--based image retrieval system using hand gesture and relevance feedback},
    year = {2001},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the second International Conference on Multimedia and Exposition (ICME'2001)},
    address = {Tokyo, Japan},
}

@inbook{KSJ1981,
    author = {Sparck-Jones, Karen},
    title = {The Cranfield tests},
    booktitle = {Information Retrieval Experiment},
    year = {1981},
    editor = {Sparck-Jones, Karen},
    publisher = {Butterworth-Heinemann},
}

@inproceedings{KSP1997,
    author = {H. Kauniskangas and J. Sauvola and M. Pietkäinen and D. Doermann},
    title = {Content--Based Image Retrieval Using Composite Features},
    year = {1997},
    booktitle = {The 10th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis},
    address = {Lappeenranta, Finland},
}

@inproceedings{KSS1998,
    author = {Omid E. Kia and Alexandre Schaff and Jaakko J. Sauvola},
    title = {Data Representation and Handling for Large Image Browsing},
    year = {1998},
    booktitle = {Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems III (VV02)},
    address = {Boston, Massachusetts, USA},
    note = {(SPIE Symposium on Voice, Video and Data Communications)},
}

@inproceedings{KuK1993,
    author = {Kurita, Takio and Kato, Toshikazo},
    title = {Learning of Personal Visual Impression for Image Database Systems},
    year = {1993},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 4th Internation Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 1993)},
    address = {Tsukuba Science City, Japan},
}

@inproceedings{Lar1999,
    author = {Larsen, Ray R.},
    title = {Text and Image Retrieval in Cheshire II},
    year = {1999},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International {ACM SIGIR} Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval},
    address = {Berkeley, CA, USA},
}

@inproceedings{LaT1999,
    author = {Lai, Ting--Shen and Tait, John},
    title = {CHROMA: A content--based image retrieval system},
    year = {1999},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International {ACM SIGIR} Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval},
    address = {Berkeley, CA, USA},
}

@inproceedings{LCL2001,
    author = {Li, Beitao and Chang, Edward and Li, Chung--Sheng},
    title = {Learning Image Query Concepts via Intelligent Sampling},
    year = {2001},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the second International Conference on Multimedia and Exposition (ICME'2001)},
    address = {Tokyo, Japan},
}

@inproceedings{LCW2001,
    author = {Li, Mingjing and Chen, Zhen and Wenyin, Liu and Zhang, Hong--Jiang},
    title = {A statistical Correlation Model for Image Retrieval},
    year = {2001},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (ACM MIR 2001)},
    address = {Ottawa, Canada},
}

@inproceedings{LeI2000,
    author = {Leung, Clement and Ip, Horace},
    title = {Benchmarking for Content--Based Visual Information Search},
    year = {2000},
    booktitle = {Fourth International Conference On Visual Information Systems (VISUAL'2000)},
    address = {Lyon, France},
}

@inproceedings{LHD1996,
    author = {Michael S. Lew and D. P. Huijsmans and Dee Denteneer},
    title = {Content Based Image Retrieval: KLT, Projections, or Templates},
    year = {1996},
    booktitle = {Image Databases and Multi--Media Search},
    address = {Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands},
}

@inproceedings{LOT1994,
    author = {Lu, Hongjun and Ooi, Beng-Chin and Tan, Kian-Lee},
    title = {Efficient Image Retrieval by Color Components},
    year = {1994},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the First International Conference on Applications of Databases (ADB 1994)},
    address = {Vadstena, Sweden},
}

@article{LZT1999,
    author = {Li, Ze-Nian and Osmar R. Zaiane and Zinovi Tauber},
    title = {Illumination Invariance and Object Model in Content--Based Image and Video Retrieval},
    journal = {Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation},
    year = {1999},
    volume = {10},
    number = {3},
    pages = {219--244},
}

@inproceedings{MFT2001,
    author = {Martin, David and Fowlkes, Charless and Tal, Doron and Malik, Jitendra},
    title = {A database of human segmented natural images and its application to evaluating segmentation algorithms and measuring ecological statistics},
    year = {2001},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV2001)},
    address = {Vancouver, Canada},
}

@inproceedings{MHH1999,
    author = {Mukherjea, Sougata and Hirata, Kyoji and Hara, Yoshinori},
    title = {AMORE: A World Wide Web Image Retrieval Engine},
    year = {1999},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing System (CHI 1999)},
    address = {Pittsburgh, PA, USA},
}

@inproceedings{MiP1996,
    author = {T. P. Minka and R. W. Picard},
    title = {Interactive learning using a ``society of models''},
    year = {1996},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'96)},
    address = {San Francisco, California},
}

@inproceedings{MKK2000,
    author = {Matas, Jiri and Koubaroulis, Dimitri and Kittler, Josef},
    title = {Performance Evaluation of the Multi--modal Neighbourhood Signature Method for Colour Object Recognition},
    year = {2000},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th Czech Pattern Recognition Workshop (CPRW2000)},
    address = {Perslak, Czech Republic},
}

@techreport{MMM2000,
    author = {Henning Müller and Wolfgang Müller and Stéphane Marchand--Maillet and David McG. Squire and Thierry Pun},
    title = {Long Term Learning in Content--Based Image Retrieval},
    number = {00.04},
    year = {2000},
    address = {rue Général Dufour, 24, CH--1211 Genève, Switzerland},
    institution = {Computer Vision Group, Computing Centre, University of Geneva},
}

@inproceedings{MMM2001,
    author = {Henning Müller and Wolfgang Müller and Stéphane Marchand--Maillet and David McG. Squire and Thierry Pun},
    title = {Automated Benchmarking in Content--Based image Retrieval},
    year = {2001},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the second International Conference on Multimedia and Exposition (ICME'2001)},
    address = {Tokyo, Japan},
}

@inproceedings{MMM2001a,
    author = {Henning Müller and Wolfgang Müller and Stéphane Marchand--Maillet and David McG. Squire and Thierry Pun},
    title = {A web--based evaluation system for content--based image retrieval},
    year = {2001},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (ACM MIR 2001)},
    address = {Ottawa, Canada},
}

@inproceedings{MMP2002,
    author = {Müller, Henning and Marchand--Maillet, Stéphane and Pun, Thierry},
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@inproceedings{ZTR2001,
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    booktitle = {Proceedings of the second International Conference on Multimedia and Exposition (ICME'2001)},
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    year = {2002},
}

@book{CaB2002,
    author = {Castelli, Vittorio and Bergmann, Lawrence D.},
    title = {Image Databases -- Search and Retrieval of Digital Imagery},
    publisher = {Wiley Interscience},
    year = {2002},
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    year = {2002 (to appear)},
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@inproceedings{ChC2002,
    author = {Chang, Edward Y. and Cheng, Kwang--Ting},
    title = {Supporting Subjective Image Queries without Seeding requirements -- proposing test queries for Benchathlon},
    year = {2002},
    month = {~21--22},
    booktitle = {Internet Imaging III},
    address = {San Jose, California, USA},
    note = {(SPIE Photonics West Conference)},
}

@book{christensen2002,
    author = {},
    title = {Empirical Evaluation Methods in Computer Vision},
    publisher = {World Scientific},
    editor = {Henrik I. Christensen and P. Jonathon Phillips},
    year = {2002},
    series = {Series in Machine Perception and Artificial Intelligence},
    volume = {50},
}

@inproceedings{ciocca2002,
    author = {G. Ciocca and R. Schettini},
    title = {Multimedia Search Engine with Relevance Feedback},
    year = {2002},
    month = {~21--22},
    booktitle = {Internet Imaging III},
    address = {San Jose, California, USA},
    note = {(SPIE Photonics West Conference)},
}

@inproceedings{gagliardi2002,
    author = {I. Gagliardi and B. Zonta},
    title = {Quicklink: Visual Dictionaries on the Web},
    year = {2002},
    month = {~21--22},
    booktitle = {Internet Imaging III},
    address = {San Jose, California, USA},
    note = {(SPIE Photonics West Conference)},
}

@inproceedings{JoJ2002,
    author = {Jörgensen, Corinne and Jörgensen, Peter},
    title = {Testing a vocabulary for image indexing and ground truthing},
    year = {2002},
    month = {~21--22},
    booktitle = {Internet Imaging III},
    address = {San Jose, California, USA},
    note = {(SPIE Photonics West Conference)},
}

@inproceedings{LRF2002,
    author = {Larabi, Mohamed--Chaker and Richard, Noël and Fernandez--Maloigne, Christine},
    title = {Using Combination of Color, Texture and Shape features for Image Retrieval in Melanomas Databases},
    year = {2002},
    month = {~21--22},
    booktitle = {Internet Imaging III},
    address = {San Jose, California, USA},
    note = {(SPIE Photonics West Conference)},
}

@article{MMM2002,
    author = {Müller, Henning and Müller, Wolfgang and Marchand--Maillet, Stéphane and Squire, David McG. and Pun, Thierry},
    title = {A Framework for Benchmarking in Visual Information Retrieval},
    journal = {International Journal on Multimedia Tools and Applications},
    year = {2002 (to appear)},
    note = {(Special Issue on Multimedia Information Retrieval)},
}

@phdthesis{mueller2002,
    author = {Henning Müller},
    title = { User Interaction and Performance Evaluation in Content-Based Visual Information Retrieval },
    year = {2002},
    school = {Viper Group, University of Geneva},
}

@inproceedings{PfM2002,
    author = {Pfund, Thomas and Marchand--Maillet, Stephane},
    title = {Dynamic multimedia annotation tool},
    year = {2002},
    month = {~21--22},
    booktitle = {Internet Imaging III},
    address = {San Jose, California, USA},
    note = {(SPIE Photonics West Conference)},
}

@mastersthesis{tsang2002,
    author = {Suk Ching Tsang},
    title = { The Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Image Retrieval Engines on the World Wide Web },
,     year = {2002},
    school = {Department of Information Science, City University, London, UK},
}

@article{Bob2001,
    author = {Bober, Miroslaw},
    title = {MPEG--7 Visual Shape Descriptors},
    journal = {IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology},
    year = {2001},
    volume = {11},
    number = {6},
    pages = {716--719},
}

@article{BrM2001,
    author = {Brunelli, R. and Mich, Ornella},
    title = {Histogram analysis for image retrieval},
    journal = {Pattern Recognition},
    year = {2001},
    volume = {34},
    pages = {1625--1637},
}

@article{ChC2001,
    author = {Chang, Min--Ta and Chen, Shu--Yuan},
    title = {Deformed Trademark Retrieval based on 2D pseudo-hidden Markov model},
    journal = {Pattern Recognition},
    year = {2001},
    volume = {34},
    pages = {953--967},
}

@mastersthesis{Chi2001,
    author = {Chiupricha, Jirapatra},
    title = {Integration of Textual and Visual Features for Content--Based Multimedia Retrieval},
,     year = {2001},
    school = {Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSSE)},
}

@article{CiS2001,
    author = {Ciocca, G. and Schettini, R.},
    title = {Content--Based Similarity Retrieval of trademarks using relevance feedback},
    journal = {Pattern Recognition},
    year = {2001},
    volume = {34},
    pages = {1639--1655},
}

@techreport{GuB2001,
    author = {Neil J. Gunther and Giordano Beretta},
    title = {A Benchmark for Image Retrieval using Distributed Systems over the Internet: BIRDS--I},
    year = {2001},
    address = {San Jose},
    institution = {HP Labs, Palo Alto, Technical Report HPL--2000--162},
}

@inproceedings{HuS2001,
    author = {Huijsmans, D. P. and Sebe, N.},
    title = {Extended Performance Graphs for Cluster Retrieval},
    year = {2001},
    month = {~9--14},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'2001)},
    address = {Kauai, Hawaii, USA},
}

@article{JJB2001,
    author = {Jaimes, Alejandro and Jörgensen, Corinne and Benitez, Ana B. and Chang, Shi--Fu},
    title = {A conceptual framework and empirical research for classifying visual descriptors},
    journal = {Journal of the American Society for Information Science},
    year = {2001},
    volume = {52 No 11},
    pages = {938--947},
}

@inproceedings{KKT2001,
    author = {Kwan, Paul W. H. and Kameyama, Keisuke and Toraichi, Kazuo},
    title = {Trademark Retrieval by Relaxation Matching on Fluency Function Approximated Image Contours},
    year = {2001},
    month = {~28--28},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2001 Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM 2001)},
    address = {Victoria, B.C., Canada},
}

@phdthesis{Meh2001,
    author = {Meharga, Mohamed Tahar},
    title = {An integrated Approch for Querying General--Purpose Image Databases},
    year = {2001},
    school = {\'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne},
    month = {October},
}

@article{MMM2001b,
    author = {Müller, Wolfgang and Marchand--Maillet, Stéphane and Müller, Henning and Squire, David McG. and Pun, Thierry},
    title = {Evaluating Image Browsers Using Structured Annotation},
    journal = {Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology ({Journal of the American Society for Information Science}T)},
    year = {2001},
    volume = {52},
    number = {11},
    pages = {961--968},
}

@phdthesis{mueller2001,
    author = {Wolfgang Müller},
    title = { Design and Implementation of a Flexible Content--Based Image Retrieval Framework - The GNU Image Finding Tool },
    year = {2001},
    school = {Viper Group, University of Geneva},
}

@misc{Ora2001,
    author = {Mauro, Joseph},
    title = {Oracle interMedia: Managing Multimedia Content},
,     howpublished = {An Oracle White Paper},
    year = {2001},
An Oracle White Paper, 2001. }

@book{Rah2001,
    author = {Rahman, Syed Mahbubur},
    title = {Design and Management of Multimedia Information Systems: Opportunities and Challenges},
    publisher = {Idea Group Publishing},
    year = {2001},
}

@inbook{SMM2001,
    author = {David McG. Squire and Henning Müller and Wolfgang Müller and Stéphane Marchand--Maillet and Thierry Pun},
    title = {Design and Evaluation of a Content-based Image Retrieval System},
    booktitle = {Design and Management of Multimedia Information Systems: Opportunities and Challenges},
    year = {2001},
    editor = {Syed M Rahman},
    publisher = {Idea Group Publishing},
}

@misc{TRECwebpresentation2001,
    author = {},
    title = {Presentation to the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-10)},
,     howpublished = {\\ \texttt{http://trec.nist.gov/presentations/TREC10/intro/index.html}},
    year = {2001},
\\ \texttt{http://trec.nist.gov/presentations/TREC10/intro/index.html}, 2001. }

@misc{videoTREC2001,
    author = {},
    title = {TREC video retrieval track},
,     howpublished = {\\ \texttt{http://www-nlpir.nist.gov/projects/trecvid/}},
    year = {2001},
\\ \texttt{http://www-nlpir.nist.gov/projects/trecvid/}, 2001. }

@article{WLW2001,
    author = {Wang, James Z. and Li, Jia and Wiederhold, Gio},
    title = {SIMPLIcity: Semantics--Sensitive Integrated Matching for Picture LIbraries},
    journal = {IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},
    year = {2001},
    volume = {23 No 9},
    pages = {1--17},
}

@misc{ActiveWebMuseum2000,
    author = {},
    title = {Active Web Museum},
,     howpublished = {\texttt{http://abyss.eurecom.fr:1111/AWM/login.html}},
    year = {2000},
\texttt{http://abyss.eurecom.fr:1111/AWM/login.html}, 2000. }

@article{BPC2000,
    author = {Benitez, Ana B. and Paek, Seungyup and Chang, Shi--Fu and Puri, Atul and Huang, Qian and Smith, J. R. and Li, Chung--Sheng and Bergman, D. and Judice, Charles N.},
    title = {Object-Based Multimedia Content Description Schemes and Applications for MPEG--7},
    journal = {Image Communication Journal},
    year = {2000},
    volume = {16},
    pages = {235--269},
}

@misc{Compassweb2000,
    author = {},
    title = {COMPASS web page},
,     howpublished = {\texttt{http://compass.itc.it}},
    year = {2000},
\texttt{http://compass.itc.it}, 2000. }

@inproceedings{DGN2000,
    author = {Dahmen, J. and Güld, M. O. and Ney, H. and Beulen, K.},
    title = {A mixture density based approach to object recognition for image retrieval},
    year = {2000},
    month = {12--14},
    booktitle = {Recherche d'Informations Assistée par Ordinateur (RIAO'2000) Computer--Assisted Information Retrieval},
    address = {Paris, France},
}

@article{Dun2000,
    author = {Dunlop, Mark},
    title = {Reflections on MIRA: Interactive evaluation in information retrieval},
    journal = {Journal of the American Society for Information Science},
    year = {2000},
    volume = {51 (14)},
    pages = {1269--1275},
}

@techreport{EaG2000,
    author = {John P. Eakins and Margaret E. Graham},
    title = {content--based Image Retrieval},
    number = {JTAP--039},
    year = {2000},
    address = {Newcastle upon Tyne},
    institution = {JISC Technology Application Program},
}

@inproceedings{GHP2000,
    author = {Geradts, Zeno and Hardy, Huub and Poortmann, Anneke and Bijhold, Jurrien},
    title = {Evaluation of contents based image retrieval methods for a database of logos on drug tablets},
    year = {2000},
    month = {~5--8},
    booktitle = {Technologies for Law Enforcement},
    address = {Boston, Massachusetts, USA},
}

@misc{Giftweb2000,
    author = {},
    title = {GNU Image Finding Tool: GIFT},
,     howpublished = {web page:\\ \texttt{http://www.gnu.org/software/gift/gift.html}},
    year = {2000},
web page:\\ \texttt{http://www.gnu.org/software/gift/gift.html}, 2000. }

@inproceedings{KLL2000,
    author = {Koskela, Markus and Laaksonen, Jorma and Laakso, Sami and Oja, Erkki},
    title = {Evaluating the performance of Content--Based Image Retrieval Systems},
    year = {2000},
    month = {~2--4},
    booktitle = {Fourth International Conference On Visual Information Systems (VISUAL'2000)},
    address = {Lyon, France},
}

@techreport{Mar2000,
    author = {Stéphane Marchand--Maillet},
    title = {Content-Based Video Retrieval: An Overview},
    number = {00.06},
    year = {2000},
    address = {Geneva, Switzerland},
    institution = {CUI - University of Geneva},
}

@inproceedings{MMM2000a,
    author = {Wolfgang Müller and Henning Müller and Stéphane Marchand--Maillet and Thierry Pun and David McG. Squire and Zoran Pe\ucenovi\'c and Christoph Giess and Arjen P. de Vries},
    title = {MRML: A Communication Protocol for Content--Based Image Retrieval},
    year = {2000},
    month = {~2--4},
    booktitle = {International Conference on Visual Information Systems (Visual 2000)},
    address = {Lyon, France},
}

@inproceedings{MMM2000b_wrongID,
    author = {Henning Müller and Wolfgang Müller and Stéphane Marchand--Maillet and David McG Squire},
    title = {Strategies for positive and negative relevance feedback in image retrieval},
    year = {2000},
    month = {sep 3--8},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'2000)},
    address = {Barcelona, Spain},
}

@inproceedings{MMM2000c,
    author = {Wolfgang Müller and Stéphane Marchand--Maillet and Henning Müller and Thierry Pun},
    title = {Towards a fair benchmark for image browsers},
    year = {2000},
    month = {~5--8},
    booktitle = {SPIE Photonics East, Voice, Video, and Data Communications},
    address = {Boston, MA, USA},
}

@techreport{MMS2000,
    author = {Henning Müller and Wolfgang Müller and David McG. Squire and Stéphane Marchand--Maillet and Thierry Pun},
    title = {Strategies for positive and negative relevance feedback in image retrieval},
    number = {00.01},
    year = {2000},
    address = {rue Général Dufour, 24, CH--1211 Genève, Switzerland},
    institution = {Computer Vision Group, Computing Centre, University of Geneva},
}

@inproceedings{MMS2000c,
    author = {Henning Müller and Wolfgang Müller and David McG. Squire and Zoran Pe\ucenovi\'c and Stéphane Marchand--Maillet and Thierry Pun},
    title = {An Open Framework for Distributed Multimedia Retrieval},
    year = {2000},
    month = {12--14},
    booktitle = {Recherche d'Informations Assistée par Ordinateur (RIAO'2000) Computer--Assisted Information Retrieval},
    address = {Paris, France},
}

@inproceedings{MMS2000e,
    author = {Henning Müller and Wolfgang Müller and David McG Squire and Stéphane Marchand--Maillet and Thierry Pun},
    title = {Learning feature weights from user behavior in Content--Based Image Retrieval},
    year = {2000},
    booktitle = {ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining MDM/KDD2000)},
    address = {Boston, MA, USA},
}

@inproceedings{MPM2000,
    author = {Wolfgang Müller and Zoran Pe\ucenovi\'c and Henning Müller and Stephane Marchand--Maillet and Thierry Pun and David McG. Squire and Arjen P. De Vries and Christoph Giess},
    title = {MRML: An Extensible Communication Protocol for Interoperability and Benchmarking of Multimedia Information Retrieval Systems},
    year = {2000},
    month = {~5--8},
    booktitle = {SPIE Photonics East - Voice, Video, and Data Communications},
    address = {Boston, MA, USA},
}

@misc{MRMLweb2000,
    author = {},
    title = {Multimedia Retrieval Markup Language (MRML)},
,     howpublished = {web page: \texttt{http://www.mrml.net}},
    year = {2000},
web page: \texttt{http://www.mrml.net}, 2000. }

@misc{MVCWeb2000,
    author = {},
    title = {Manchester Visualization Center; CBIR Evaluation},
,     howpublished = {\texttt{http://www.man.ac.uk/MVC/research/CBIR/}},
    year = {2000},
\texttt{http://www.man.ac.uk/MVC/research/CBIR/}, 2000. }

@inproceedings{OMC2000,
    author = {Ortega--Binderberger, Michael and Mehrotra, Sharad and Chakrabarti, Kaushik and Porkaew, Kriengkrai},
    title = {WebMARS: A Multimedia Search Engine},
    year = {2000},
    month = {~23--28},
    booktitle = {Internet Imaging},
    address = {San Jose, California, USA},
    note = {(SPIE Photonics West Conference)},
}

@article{SEH2000,
    author = {Sutcliffe, A. G. and Ennis, M. and Hu, J.},
    title = {Evaluating the effectiveness of visual user interfaces for information retrieval},
    journal = {The International Journal of Human-Computer Studies},
    year = {2000},
    volume = {53},
    pages = {741--763},
}

@article{SMM2000,
    author = {David McG. Squire and Wolfgang Müller and Henning Müller and Thierry Pun},
    title = {content--based query of image databases: inspirations from text retrieval},
    journal = {Pattern Recognition Letters (Selected Papers from The 11th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis SCIA '99)},
    year = {2000},
    volume = {21},
    number = {13-14},
    pages = {1193-1198},
    note = {B.K. Ersboll, P. Johansen, Eds.},
}

@article{Squ2000,
    author = {David McG. Squire},
    title = {Distance Learning Networks: learning a similarity-based distance measure for content--based image retrieval},
    journal = {Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation},
    year = {2000},
}

@article{SWS2000,
    author = {Smeulders, Arnold W. M. and Worring, Marcel and Santini, Simone and Gupta, Armarnath and Jain, Ramesh},
    title = {Content--Based Image Retrieval at the end of the early years},
    journal = {IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},
    year = {2000},
    volume = {22 No 12},
    pages = {1349--1380},
}

@inproceedings{VaL2000a,
    author = {Vasconcelos, Nuno and Lippman, Andrew},
    title = {A probabilistic architecture for content--based image retrieval},
    year = {2000},
    month = {~13--15},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'2000)},
    address = {Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA},
}

@inproceedings{VaL2000c,
    author = {Vasconcelos, Nuno and Lippman, Andrew},
    title = {Learning over multiple temporal scales in image databases},
    year = {2000},
    month = {~26--30},
    booktitle = {6th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV2000)},
    address = {Dublin, Ireland},
}

@article{VaL2000d,
    author = {Vasconcelos, Nuno and Lippmann, Andrew},
    title = {Learning from User Feedback in Image Retrieval Systems},
    journal = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
    year = {2000},
    volume = {12},
}

@techreport{VeC2000,
    author = {Colin C. Venters and Matthew Cooper},
    title = {content--based Image Retrieval},
    number = {JTAP--054},
    year = {2000},
    institution = {JISC Technology Application Program},
}

@article{Voo2000,
    author = {Voorhees, Ellen M.},
    title = {Variations in relevance judgements and the measurement of retrieval effectiveness},
    journal = {Information Processing and Management},
    year = {2000},
    volume = {36},
    pages = {697--716},
}

@inproceedings{Wes2000,
    author = {Westerveld, Thijs},
    title = {Image Retrieval: Content versus Context},
    year = {2000},
    month = {12--14},
    booktitle = {Recherche d'Informations Assistée par Ordinateur (RIAO'2000) Computer--Assisted Information Retrieval},
    address = {Paris, France},
}

@inproceedings{AkH1999,
    author = {Aksoy, Selim and Haralick, Robert M.},
    title = {Graph Theoretic Clustering for Image Grouping and Retrieval},
    year = {1999},
    month = {~23--25},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'99)},
    address = {Fort Collins, Colorado, USA},
}

@book{baezayates1999,
    author = {Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto},
    title = {Modern Information Retrieval},
    publisher = {Addison Wesley / ACM Press},
    year = {1999},
}

@inproceedings{BCF1999,
    author = {Lee Breslau and Pei Cao and Li Fan and Graham Phillips and Scott Shenker},
    title = {Web Caching and Zipf-like Distributions: Evidence and Implications},
    year = {1999},
    booktitle = {{INFOCOM} (1)},
}

@inproceedings{BeS1999,
    author = {Berman, Andrew P. and Shapiro, Linda G.},
    title = {Efficient Content--Based Retrieval: Experimental Results},
    year = {1999},
    month = {~22},
    booktitle = {IEEE Workshop on Content--based Access of Image and Video Libraries (CBAIVL'99)},
    address = {Fort Collins, Colorado, USA},
}

@article{BeS1999a,
    author = {Andrew P. Berman and Linda G. Shapiro},
    title = {A Flexible Image Database System for Content--Based Retrieval},
    journal = {Computer Vision and Image Understanding},
    year = {1999},
    month = {/},
}

@book{Bim1999,
    author = {del Bimbo, A.},
    title = {Visual Information Retrieval},
    publisher = {Academic Press},
    year = {1999},
}

@inproceedings{BKS1999,
    author = {Brodley, C. and Kak, A. and Shyu, C. and Dy, J. and Broderick, L. and Aisen, A. M.},
    title = {Content--based retrieval from medical image databases: A synergy of human interaction, machine learning and computer vision},
    year = {1999},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 10th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
}

@article{Bur1999,
    author = {Burgin, Robert},
    title = {The Monte Carlo Method and the evaluation of Retrieval System Performance},
    journal = {Journal of the American Society for Information Science},
    year = {1999},
    volume = {50 No 2},
    pages = {181--191},
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@article{BuW1999,
    author = {Büchter, Oliver and Wirth, Rüdiger},
    title = {Learning from User Feedback in Image Retrieval Systems},
    journal = {Knowledge and Information Systems},
    year = {1999},
    volume = {1 (4)},
    pages = {393--414},
}

@inproceedings{ChC1999,
    author = {Youssef Chahir and Liming Chen},
    title = {Efficient Content--Based Image Retrieval based on color homogeneous objects segmentation and their spatial relationship characterization},
    year = {1999},
    month = {~7--11},
    booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems ICMCS'99},
    address = {Florence, Italy},
}

@misc{CORBIS1999,
    author = {},
    title = {Corbis -- The Place for Pictures on the Internet},
,     howpublished = {{URL}: \texttt{http://www.corbis.com/}},
    year = {1999},
{URL}: \texttt{http://www.corbis.com/}, 1999. }

@inproceedings{CTB1999,
    author = {Carson, Chad and Thomas, Megan and Belongie, Serge and Hellerstein, Joseph M. and Malik, Jitendra},
    title = {Blobworld: A System for Region--Based Image Indexing and Retrieval},
    year = {1999},
    month = {~2--4},
    booktitle = {Third International Conference On Visual Information Systems (VISUAL'99)},
    address = {Amsterdam, The Netherlands},
}

@inproceedings{DBK1999,
    author = {Dy, Jennifer G. and Brodley, Carla E. and Kak, Avi and Shyu, Chi--Ren and Broderick, Linda S.},
    title = {The Customized--Queries Approach to CBIR using Using EM},
    year = {1999},
    month = {~22},
    booktitle = {IEEE Workshop on Content--based Access of Image and Video Libraries (CBAIVL'99)},
    address = {Fort Collins, Colorado, USA},
}

@inproceedings{Dim1999,
    author = {Alexander Dimai},
    title = {Assessment of Effectiveness of content--based Image Retrieval Systems},
    year = {1999},
    month = {~2--4},
    booktitle = {Third International Conference On Visual Information Systems (VISUAL'99)},
    address = {Amsterdam, The Netherlands},
}

@inproceedings{GaK1999,
    author = {Ullas Gargi and Rangachar Kasturi},
    title = {Image Database Querying Using a Multi--Scale Localized Color Representation},
    year = {1999},
    month = {~22},
    booktitle = {IEEE Workshop on Content--based Access of Image and Video Libraries (CBAIVL'99)},
    address = {Fort Collins, Colorado, USA},
}

@techreport{GeM1999,
    author = {Donald Geman and Roland Moquet},
    title = {A Stochastic Feedback Model for Image Retrieval},
    year = {1999},
    address = {91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France},
    institution = {Ecole Polytechnique},
    type = {Technical report},
}

@misc{GroundtruthWashington1999,
    author = {},
    title = {Annotated Groundtruth Database},
,     howpublished = {Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, \texttt{http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/imagedatabase/groundtruth/}},
    year = {1999},
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, \texttt{http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/imagedatabase/groundtruth/}, 1999. }

@article{Har1999,
    author = {Harper, David J.},
    title = {Report on CIR 1999, the 2nd UK conference on the chanllenge of image Retrieval},
    journal = {SIGIR Forum},
    year = {1999},
    volume = {33 No 1},
    pages = {20--22},
}

@inproceedings{HCH1999,
    author = {Huet, Benoit and Cross, Andrew D. J. and Hancock, Edwin R.},
    title = {Shape Retrieval by Inexact Graph Matching},
    year = {1999},
    month = {~7--11},
    booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems ICMCS'99},
    address = {Florence, Italy},
}

@inproceedings{HuH1999,
    author = {Benoit Huet and Edwin R. Hancock},
    title = {Inexact Graph Retrieval},
    year = {1999},
    month = {~22},
    booktitle = {IEEE Workshop on Content--based Access of Image and Video Libraries (CBAIVL'99)},
    address = {Fort Collins, Colorado, USA},
}

@inproceedings{HWF1999,
    author = {Wey--Shiuan Hwang and John J. Weng and Ming Fang and Jianzhong Qian},
    title = {A Fast Image Retrieval Algorithm with Automatically Extracted Discriminant Features},
    year = {1999},
    month = {~22},
    booktitle = {IEEE Workshop on Content--based Access of Image and Video Libraries (CBAIVL'99)},
    address = {Fort Collins, Colorado, USA},
}

@misc{ImageFish1999,
    author = {},
    title = {ImageFish! image search engine},
,     howpublished = {{URL}: \texttt{http://www.tofish.net/}},
    year = {1999},
{URL}: \texttt{http://www.tofish.net/}, 1999. }

@misc{IMatch1999,
    author = {},
    title = {IMatch -- Image Matching for the Desktop},
,     howpublished = {{URL}: \texttt{http://www.mwlabs.de/}},
    year = {1999},
{URL}: \texttt{http://www.mwlabs.de/}, 1999. }

@misc{IMediaweb1999,
    author = {},
    title = {Surfimage Webdemo},
,     howpublished = {\texttt{http://www-rocq.inria.fr/cgi-bin/imedia/surfimage.cgi}},
    year = {1999},
\texttt{http://www-rocq.inria.fr/cgi-bin/imedia/surfimage.cgi}, 1999. }

@inproceedings{IqA1999,
    author = {Iqbal, Qasim and Aggarwal, J. K.},
    title = {Applying perceptual grouping to content--based image retrieval: Building images},
    year = {1999},
    month = {~23--25},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'99)},
    address = {Fort Collins, Colorado, USA},
}

@inproceedings{LMZ1999,
    author = {Lee, Catherine S. and Ma, Wei--Ying and Zhang, HongJiang},
    title = {Information Embedding Based on User's Relevance feedback in image retrieval},
    year = {1999},
    month = {~20--22},
    booktitle = {Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems IV (VV02)},
    address = {Boston, Massachusetts, USA},
    note = {(SPIE Symposium on Voice, Video and Data Communications)},
}

@article{MAP1999,
    author = {Mandal, M. K. and Aboulnasr, T. and Panchanathan, S.},
    title = {Fast Wavelet Histogram Techniques for Image Indexing},
    journal = {Computer Vision and Image Understanding},
    year = {1999},
    volume = {75 Nos 1/2},
    pages = {99--110},
}

@inproceedings{MBM1999,
    author = {Moghaddam, Baback and Biermann, Henning and Margaritis, Dimitris},
    title = {Defining Image Content with Multiple Regions of Interest},
    year = {1999},
    month = {~22},
    booktitle = {IEEE Workshop on Content--based Access of Image and Video Libraries (CBAIVL'99)},
    address = {Fort Collins, Colorado, USA},
}

@inproceedings{MCP1999,
    author = {Ruggero Milanese and Michel Cherbuliez and Thierry Pun},
    title = {Invariant content--based image retrieval using the Fourier--Mellin transform},
    year = {1999},
    booktitle = {International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition (ICAPR'98)},
    note = {(Plymouth, UK, 23--25 November 1998)},
}

@article{MiC1999,
    author = {Milanese, Ruggero and Cherbuliez, Michel},
    title = {A Rotation, Translation and Scale--Invariant Approach to Content--Based Image Retrieval},
    journal = {Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation},
    year = {1999},
    volume = {10},
    pages = {186--196},
}

@techreport{MMS1999,
    author = {Henning Müller and Wolfgang Müller and David McG.\ Squire and Thierry Pun},
    title = {Performance Evaluation in Content--Based Image Retrieval: Overview and Proposals},
    number = {99.05},
    year = {1999},
    address = {rue Général Dufour, 24, CH--1211 Genève, Switzerland},
    institution = {Computer Vision Group, Computing Centre, University of Geneva},
}

@inproceedings{MSM1999b,
    author = {Wolfgang Müller and David McG. Squire and Henning Müller and Thierry Pun},
    title = {Hunting moving targets: an extension to Bayesian methods in multimedia databases},
    year = {1999},
    month = {~20--22},
    booktitle = {Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems IV (VV02)},
    address = {Boston, Massachusetts, USA},
    note = {(SPIE Symposium on Voice, Video and Data Communications)},
}

@inproceedings{MSM1999c,
    author = {Henning Müller and David McG. Squire and Wolfgang Müller and Thierry Pun},
    title = {Efficient access methods for content--based image retrieval with inverted files},
    year = {1999},
    month = {~20--22},
    booktitle = {Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems IV (VV02)},
    address = {Boston, Massachusetts, USA},
    note = {(SPIE Symposium on Voice, Video and Data Communications)},
}

@inproceedings{MuR1999,
    author = {Stefan Müller and Gerhard Rigoll},
    title = {Improved Stochastic Modeling of Shapes for Content--Based Image Retrieval},
    year = {1999},
    month = {~22},
    booktitle = {IEEE Workshop on Content--based Access of Image and Video Libraries (CBAIVL'99)},
    address = {Fort Collins, Colorado, USA},
}

@inproceedings{Nib1999,
    author = {Wayne Niblack},
    title = {SlideFinder: A Tool for Browsing Presentation Graphics Using Content--Based Retrieval},
    year = {1999},
    month = {~22},
    booktitle = {IEEE Workshop on Content--based Access of Image and Video Libraries (CBAIVL'99)},
    address = {Fort Collins, Colorado, USA},
}

@inproceedings{OWA1999,
    author = {Ozer, Burak and Wolf, Wayne and Akansu, Ali N.},
    title = {A Graph Based Object Description for Information Retrieval in Digital Image and Video Libraries},
    year = {1999},
    month = {~22},
    booktitle = {IEEE Workshop on Content--based Access of Image and Video Libraries (CBAIVL'99)},
    address = {Fort Collins, Colorado, USA},
}

@article{PBQ1999,
    author = {Jing Peng and Bir Bhanu and Shan Qing},
    title = {Probabilistic Feature Relevance Learning for Content--Based Image Retrieval},
    journal = {Computer Vision and Image Understanding},
    year = {1999},
    month = {/},
}

@article{PBQ1999a,
    author = {Peng, Jing and Bhanu, Bir and Qing, Shan},
    title = {Probabilistic feature relevance learning for content--based image retrieval},
    journal = {Computer Vision and Image Understanding},
    year = {1999},
    volume = {75 Nos 1/2},
    pages = {150--164},
}

@inproceedings{RMG1999,
    author = {Ratan, A. L. and Maron, O. and Grimson, W. E. L. and Lozano--Perez, T.},
    title = {A Framework for Learning Query Concepts in Image Classification},
    year = {1999},
    month = {~23--25},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'99)},
    address = {Fort Collins, Colorado, USA},
}

@article{SaJ1999,
    author = {Santini, Simone and Jain, Ramesh},
    title = {Similarity measures},
    journal = {IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},
    year = {1999},
    volume = {21},
    number = {9},
    pages = {871--883},
}

@article{SBK1999,
    author = {Chi--Ren Shyu and Carla E. Brodley and Avinash C. Kak and Akio Kosaka and Alex M. Aisen and Lynn S. Broderick},
    title = {ASSERT: A Physician--in--the--Loop Content--Based Retrieval System for HRCT Image Databases},
    journal = {Computer Vision and Image Understanding},
    year = {1999},
    month = {/},
}

@article{SBK1999a,
    author = {Shyu, Chi--Ren and Brodley, Carla E. and Kak, Avinash C. and Kosaka, Akio and Aisen, Alex M. and Broderick, Lynn S.},
    title = {ASSERT: A Physician in the loop Content--Based Retrieval System for HRCT Image Databases},
    journal = {Computer Vision and Image Understanding},
    year = {1999},
    volume = {75 Nos 1/2},
    pages = {111--132},
}

@inproceedings{Sch1999,
    author = {Schmid, Cordelia},
    title = {A structured probabilistic model for recognition},
    year = {1999},
    month = {~23--25},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'99)},
    address = {Fort Collins, Colorado, USA},
}

@article{SCS1999,
    author = {Sclaroff, Stan and La Cascia, Marco and Sethi, Saratendu},
    title = {Unifying textual and visual cues for content--based Image Retrieval on the World Wide Web},
    journal = {Computer Vision and Image Understanding},
    year = {1999},
    volume = {75 Nos 1/2},
    pages = {86--98},
}

@inproceedings{SKB1999,
    author = {Chi--Ren Shyu and Avi Kak and Carla Brodley and Lynn S. Broderick},
    title = {Testing for Human Perceptual Categories in a Physician--in--the--loop CBIR System for Medical Imagery},
    year = {1999},
    month = {~22},
    booktitle = {IEEE Workshop on Content--based Access of Image and Video Libraries (CBAIVL'99)},
    address = {Fort Collins, Colorado, USA},
}

@article{SLS1999,
    author = {Stan Sclaroff and La Cascia, Marco and Saratendu Sethi and Leonid Taycher},
    title = {Unifying Textual and Visual Cues for Content--Based Image Retrieval on the World Wide Web},
    journal = {Computer Vision and Image Understanding},
    year = {1999},
    month = {/},
}

@inproceedings{SMJ1999,
    author = {Eero Sormunen and Marjo Markkula and Kalervo Järvelin},
    title = {The Perceived Similarity of Photos -- Seeking a Solid Basis for the Evaluation of content--based Retrieval Algorithms},
    year = {1999},
    month = {14--16},
    booktitle = {{F}inal {MIRA} {C}onference},
    address = {Glasgow},
}

@article{SmL1999,
    author = {John R. Smith and Chung--Sheng Li},
    title = {Image Classification and Querying Using Composite Region Templates},
    journal = {Computer Vision and Image Understanding},
    year = {1999},
    month = {/},
}

@inproceedings{SMM1999,
    author = {David McG. Squire and Wolfgang Müller and Henning Müller and Jilali Raki},
    title = {content--based query of image databases, inspirations from text retrieval: inverted files, frequency--based weights and relevance feedback},
    year = {1999},
    month = {7--11},
    booktitle = {The 11th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA'99)},
    address = {Kangerlussuaq, Greenland},
}

@inproceedings{SMM1999a,
    author = {David McG. Squire and Wolfgang Müller and Henning Müller},
    title = {Relevance feedback and term weighting schemes for content--based image retrieval},
    year = {1999},
    month = {~2--4},
    booktitle = {Third International Conference On Visual Information Systems (VISUAL'99)},
    address = {Amsterdam, The Netherlands},
}

@inproceedings{SMM1999c,
    author = {David McG. Squire and Henning Müller and Wolfgang Müller},
    title = {Improving Response Time by Search Pruning in a Content--Based Image Retrieval System, Using Inverted File Techniques},
    year = {1999},
    month = {~22},
    booktitle = {IEEE Workshop on Content--based Access of Image and Video Libraries (CBAIVL'99)},
    address = {Fort Collins, Colorado, USA},
}

@inproceedings{SZR1999,
    author = {Rohini Srihari and Zhongfei Zhang and Aibing Rao},
    title = {Image Background Search: Combining Object Detection into Content--Based Similarity Image Retrieval (CBIR) Systems},
    year = {1999},
    month = {~22},
    booktitle = {IEEE Workshop on Content--based Access of Image and Video Libraries (CBAIVL'99)},
    address = {Fort Collins, Colorado, USA},
}

@misc{TREC1999,
    author = {},
    title = {Text REtrieval Conference (TREC)},
,     howpublished = {\\ \texttt{http://trec.nist.gov/}},
    year = {1999},
\\ \texttt{http://trec.nist.gov/}, 1999. }

@inproceedings{VaL1999,
    author = {Nuno Vasconcelos and Andrew Lippman},
    title = {Probabilistic Retrieval: New insights and experimental results},
    year = {1999},
    month = {~22},
    booktitle = {IEEE Workshop on Content--based Access of Image and Video Libraries (CBAIVL'99)},
    address = {Fort Collins, Colorado, USA},
}

@misc{Viperweb1999,
    author = {},
    title = {Viper web page},
,     howpublished = {\texttt{http://viper.unige.ch/}},
    year = {1999},
\texttt{http://viper.unige.ch/}, 1999. }

@inproceedings{VWS1999,
    author = {J. Vendrig and M. Worring and A. W. M. Smeulders},
    title = {Filter Image Browsing: Exploiting Interaction in Image Retrieval},
    year = {1999},
    month = {~2--4},
    booktitle = {Third International Conference On Visual Information Systems (VISUAL'99)},
    address = {Amsterdam, The Netherlands},
}

@inproceedings{WMN1999,
    author = {P. Wu and B. S. Manjunath and S. D. Newsam and H. D. Shin},
    title = {A Novel Texture Descriptor for Image Retrieval and Browsing},
    year = {1999},
    month = {~22},
    booktitle = {IEEE Workshop on Content--based Access of Image and Video Libraries (CBAIVL'99)},
    address = {Fort Collins, Colorado, USA},
}

@inproceedings{BBC1998,
    author = {M. Beigi and A. B. Benitez and S.-F. Chang},
    title = {MetaSEEk: A Content--Based Meta-Search Engine for Images},
    year = {1998},
    booktitle = {Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Multimedia Processing and Applications - Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases "Vine", IST/SPIE'98, San Jose, CA},
}

@article{BBC1998a,
    author = {Benitez, Ana B. and Beigi, Mandis and Chang, Shi--Fu},
    title = {Using Relevance Feedback in Content--Based Image Metasearch},
    journal = {IEEE Computer},
    year = {1998},
    volume = {July/August},
    pages = {59--69},
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@book{bowyer1998,
    author = {},
    title = {Empirical Evaluation Techniques In Computer Vision},
    publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
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    year = {1998},
}

@article{CDV1998,
    author = {Jacopo M. Corridoni and Del Bimbo, Alberto and Enrico Vicario},
    title = {Image retrieval by color semantics with incomplete knowledge},
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    year = {1998},
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    number = {3},
    pages = {267--282},
}

@article{ChH1998a,
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    title = {Integrating query expansion and conceptual relevance feedback for personalized Web information retrieval},
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@inproceedings{DeV1998a,
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    title = {Structure Driven Image Database Retrieval},
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    booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
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@article{EBG1998,
    author = {Eakins, John P. and Boardman. Jago M. and Graham, Margaret E.},
    title = {Similarity Retrieval of Trademark Images},
    journal = {IEEE Multimedia Magazine},
    year = {1998},
    volume = {53--63},
}

@misc{EXCALIBURweb1999,
    author = {},
    title = {Excalibur Visual RetrievalWare},
,     howpublished = {web page: \texttt{http://www.excalib.com/products/vrw/vrw.html}},
    year = {1998},
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@article{GrE1998a,
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    year = {1998},
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    pages = {73--80},
}

@article{JaV1998,
    author = {Jain, Anil K. and Vailaya, Aditiya},
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    journal = {Pattern Recognition},
    year = {1998},
    volume = {31 No 9},
    pages = {1369--1390},
}

@inproceedings{LSS1998,
    author = {La Cascia, Marco and Saratendu Sethi and Stan Sclaroff},
    title = {Combining Textual and Visual Cues for content--based Image Retrieval on the World Wide Web},
    year = {1998},
    month = {~21},
    booktitle = {IEEE Workshop on Content--based Access of Image and Video Libraries (CBAIVL'98)},
    address = {Santa Barbara, CA, USA},
}

@inproceedings{MaS1998,
    author = {Marjo Markkula and Eero Sormunen},
    title = {Searching for Photos -- Journalists' Practices in Pictorial IR},
    year = {1998},
    month = {5--6},
    booktitle = {The Challenge of Image Retrieval, A Workshop and Symposium on Image Retrieval},
    address = {Newcastle upon Tyne},
}

@inproceedings{MDB1998,
    author = {Matusiak, S. and Daoudi, M. and Blu, T. and Ghorbel, Faouzi},
    title = {Indexation Robuste et Recherche d'Images pae le Dessin},
    year = {1998},
    month = {~9--10},
    booktitle = {4èmes Journées d'\'Etudes et d'\'Echanges COmpression et REprésentation des Signaux Audiovisuels (CORESA 1998)},
    address = {Lannion, France},
}

@article{Miz1998,
    author = {Mizzaro, Stefano},
    title = {How many relevances in information retrieval?},
    journal = {Interacting with Computers},
    year = {1998},
    volume = {10 No 3},
    pages = {305--322},
}

@inproceedings{NBM1998,
    author = {Nastar, Chahab and Boujemaa, Nozha and Mitschke, Matthias and Meilhac, Christophe},
    title = {Surfimage: Un Système Flexible d'Indexation et de Recherche d'Images},
    year = {1998},
    month = {~9--10},
    booktitle = {4èmes Journées d'\'Etudes et d'\'Echanges COmpression et REprésentation des Signaux Audiovisuels (CORESA 1998)},
    address = {Lannion, France},
}

@article{NiM1998,
    author = {Nikolovska, Lira and Martino, Jacquelyn},
    title = {Spatial Browsing to Retrieval Multimedia Information},
    journal = {IEEE Multimedia Magazine},
    year = {1998},
    volume = {April/June},
    pages = {78--83},
}

@misc{QBICweb1999,
    author = {},
    title = {QBIC$^\mathrmTM$ -- IBM's Query By Image Content},
,     howpublished = {\texttt{http://wwwqbic.almaden.ibm.com/\~{}qbic/}},
    year = {1998},
\texttt{http://wwwqbic.almaden.ibm.com/\~{}qbic/}, 1998. }

@inproceedings{RFS1998,
    author = {Bernice E. Rogowitz and Thomas Frese and John R. Smith and Charles A. Bouman and Edward B. Kalin},
    title = {Perceptual image similarity experiments},
    year = {1998},
    month = {26--29},
    booktitle = {Human Vision and Electronic Imaging III},
    address = {San Jose, CA, USA},
}

@article{Sch1998,
    author = {Schroeder, Kimberly A},
    title = {Layered indexing of images},
    journal = {The Indexer},
    year = {1998},
    volume = {21, No 1},
    pages = {11--14},
}

@inproceedings{SDF1998,
    author = {Seyrat, Claude and Durand, Gwenaël and Faudemay, Pascal},
    title = {Méthodes d'indexation multimédia fondées sur les objets visuels},
    year = {1998},
    month = {~9--10},
    booktitle = {4èmes Journées d'\'Etudes et d'\'Echanges COmpression et REprésentation des Signaux Audiovisuels (CORESA 1998)},
    address = {Lannion, France},
}

@inproceedings{Smi1998a,
    author = {Smith, John R.},
    title = {Image Retrieval Evaluation},
    year = {1998},
    month = {~21},
    booktitle = {IEEE Workshop on Content--based Access of Image and Video Libraries (CBAIVL'98)},
    address = {Santa Barbara, CA, USA},
}

@article{SqP1998,
    author = {David McG. Squire and Thierry Pun},
    title = {Assessing Agreement Between Human and Machine Clusterings of Image Databases},
    journal = {Pattern Recognition},
    year = {1998},
    volume = {31},
    number = {12},
    pages = {1905--1919},
}

@phdthesis{Sta1998,
    author = {Sergei Startchik},
    title = {Geometric and Illumination Invariant Object Representation: Application to content--based Image Retrieval},
    year = {1998},
    school = {University of Geneva},
    month = {July},
}

@misc{VIRAGEweb1999,
    author = {},
    title = {Virage Visual Information Retrieval Image Engine},
,     howpublished = {\texttt{http://www.virage.com/market/vir.html}},
    year = {1998},
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@article{ZoM1998,
    author = {Justin Zobel and Alistair Moffat},
    title = {Exploring the similarity space},
    journal = {ACM SIGIR Forum (SIG on Information Retrieval)},
    year = {1998},
    volume = {32},
    number = {1},
    pages = {18--34},
}

@article{BoI1997,
    author = {Borlund, Pia and Ingwersen, Peter},
    title = {The development of a method for the evaluation of interactive information retrieval systems},
    journal = {Journal of Documentation},
    year = {1997},
    volume = {53},
    pages = {225--250},
}

@article{DaD1997,
    author = {Draper, Stephen W. and Dunlop, Mark D.},
    title = {New IR -- New Evaluation: The impact of Interaction and Multimedia on Information Retrieval and its Evaluation},
    journal = {The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia},
    year = {1997},
    volume = {3},
    pages = {107--122},
}

@techreport{He1997,
    author = {He, Qin},
    title = {An Evaluation on MARS -- an Image Indexing and Retrieval System},
    year = {1997},
    address = {Champaign, IL 61820, USA},
    institution = {Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign},
}

@inproceedings{HKM1997a,
    author = {Jing Huang and Kumar, S. Ravi and Mandar Mitra},
    title = {Combining Supervised Learning with Color Correlograms for Content--Based Image Retrieval},
    year = {1997},
    month = {~9--13},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of The Fifth ACM International Multimedia Conference ({ACM} {M}ultimedia 97)},
    address = {Seattle, WA, USA},
}

@article{Miz1997,
    author = {Mizzaro, Stefano},
    title = {Relevance: The whole (hi)story},
    journal = {Journal of the American Society for Information Science},
    year = {1997},
    volume = {48 No 9},
    pages = {810--832},
}

@misc{MPEG1997,
    author = {},
    title = {MPEG--7: Context and Objectives},
,     howpublished = {\\{URL}: \texttt{http://drogo.cselt.stet.it/mpeg/standards/mpeg-7.htm}},
    year = {1997},
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@article{NKW1997,
    author = {A. Desai Narasimhalu and Mohan S. Kankanhalli and Jiankang Wu},
    title = {Benchmarking Multimedia Databases},
    journal = {Multimedia Tools and Applications},
    year = {1997},
    volume = {4},
    pages = {333--356},
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@inproceedings{ORC1997,
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@phdthesis{Smi1997,
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@phdthesis{geradts2002,
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