An adaptive and efficient clustering-based approach for content-based image retrieval in image databases
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The authors present a novel content based image retrieval (CBIR) approach, for image databases, based on cluster analysis. CBIR relies on the representation (metadata) of images' visual content. In order to produce such metadata, we propose an efficient and adaptive clustering algorithm to segment the images into regions of high similarity. This approach contrasts with those that use a single color histogram for the whole image (global methods), or local color histograms for a fixed number of image cells (partition based methods). Our experimental results show that our clustering approach offers high retrieval effectiveness with low space overhead. For example, using a database of 20000 images, we obtained higher retrieval effectiveness than partition based methods with about the same space overhead of global methods, which are typically regarded as storage-wise compact.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it