METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PICTURE RETRIEVAL

摘要

PURPOSE:To provide the method and the device which are capable of high- precision picture retrieval matched to user's intention. CONSTITUTION:Appendant information related to a picture to be retrieved is inputted from a retrieval appendant information input part 43 and is compared with appendant information in the appendant information storage part of a data base to select a matched candidate of picture data. Plural example pictures are inputted from an example picture input part 41, and plural feature quantity data are extracted by a feature quantity calculating part 2. Distances between these feature quantity data and the feature quantity of the selected picture stored in a feature quantity storage part 33 are calculated. These distances are sorted in the descending order by a candidate order determining part, and corresponding picture data is displayed on a display part 7.