DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMAGE RETRIEVAL AND COMPUTER- READABLE MEMORY

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device and a method for image retrieval which enable efficient image retrieval while reflecting user's intention and a computer readable memory. SOLUTION: Each of pieces of image data and its image feature quantities are stored on a hard disk device 106 while made to correspond to each other. An image that the user draws is inputted as a retrieval condition from a pointing device 102a. A CPU 101 calculates the image feature quantity of the inputted image. According to the calculated image feature quantity and the image feature quantity of the image data, image similarity is calculated.