Definition
Target search in content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems refers to finding a specific (target) image such as a particular registered logo or a specific historical photograph. To search for such an image, query point movement techniques iteratively move the query point closer to the target image for each round of the user’s relevance feedback until the target image is found. The goals of query point movement techniques include avoiding local maximum traps, achieving fast convergence, reducing computation overhead, and guaranteeing to find the target.
Historical Background
Images in a database are characterized by their visual features, and represented as points in a multidimensional feature space. A query point is one of these image points, selected to find similar images represented by image points nearest to the query point in the feature space. This cluster of nearby or relevant image points has a shape (see Figs. 1 and 2) referred to as the query shape.
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Hua, K.A., Liu, D. (2018). Query Point Movement Techniques for Content-Based Image Retrieval. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_295
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