A Pictorial Language for the Retrieval of Spatial Relations from Image Databases

Papadias, D; Sellis, T

dc.contributor.author	Papadias, D	en
dc.contributor.author	Sellis, T	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T01:42:17Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T01:42:17Z
dc.date.issued	1994	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/23753
dc.subject	Image Database	en
dc.subject	Query By Example	en
dc.subject	Query Language	en
dc.subject	Spatial Relation	en
dc.subject	Topological Relation	en
dc.title	A Pictorial Language for the Retrieval of Spatial Relations from Image Databases	en
heal.type	journalArticle	en
heal.publicationDate	1994	en
heal.abstract	The paper describes a Pictorial Query-By-Example (PQBE) aimed at the retrieval of direction relations from Image Databases. PQBE incorporates several features such as object, image and relation retrieval, union, intersection etc. Unlike verbal query languages it does not presume knowledge of keywords for spatial relations on behalf of the user, nor familiarity with database models, but complex spatial conditions are	en