@conference {13529, title = {Content-based Image Retrieval Using Composite Features}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1997 Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis}, year = {1997}, month = {1997///}, pages = {35 - 42}, abstract = {In this paper, we demonstrate methods for content-based image retrieval problems utilizing a specially designed retrieval architecture implemented within the {\textquoteright}Intelligent Image Retrieval{\textquoteright} system (IIR). The method consists of new image features in the retrieval context, including segmentation methods and use of image frames. They are combined in a unique way with color, texture, shape and localization information with a special data ion construction in a graphical user interface. The IIR system provides an efficient retrieval architecture utilizing a tailored query language, retrieval mechanisms and an object-oriented database enabling the use of complex data structures and relations needed for successful query processing. Functionality and performance of methods and architecture are illustrated with a series of tests using a database that consists of several hundred {\textquoteright}scene{\textquoteright} images.}, author = {Kauniskangas,H. and Sauvola,J. and Pietikainen,M. and David Doermann} }