Aya Soffer's Recent Publications


A. Soffer and H. Samet, Pictorial Query Specification for Browsing Through Image Databases. Second International Conference on Visual Information systems, San Diego, California, Dec 1997

K. Kuhlman, A. Soffer, and Tim Foresman Development of a Three-Tier Metadata Documentation Scheme: Examining Level I as an Internet Accessible Metadata Input and Search Tool The Second IEEE Metadata Conference, Silver Spring, Maryland, September 1997.

A. Soffer, Image Categorization using Texture Features. Fourth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition,, Ulm, Germany, August 1997.

A. Soffer and H. Samet, Negative Shape Features for Image Databases Consisting of Geographic Symbols. 3rd International Workshop on Visual Form Capri, Italy, May, 1997

H. Samet and A. Soffer, MARCO: MAp Retrieval by COntent. IEEE transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. Special issue on Digital libraries: Representation and Retrieval, 18(8):783-798, Aug. 1996

A.Soffer, Image Categorization using NxM-grams. Proceeding of the SPIE, Storage and Retrieval of Still Image and Video Databases V, pages 121-132, San-Jose, California, February, 1997

A. Soffer, Image Categorization using Texture Features. Technical Report TR-96-187, CESDIS, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 1996

A.Soffer and H. Samet, Pictorial Queries by Image Similarity. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, volume III, pages 114-119, Vienna, Austria, August 1996.

A.Soffer and H. Samet, Handling Multiple Instances of Symbols in Pictorial Queries by Image Similarity. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Image Databases and Multi Media Search, pages 51-58, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 1996.

A.Soffer and H. Samet, Retrieval by content in symbolic-image databases. Proceeding of the SPIE, Storage and Retrieval of Still Image and Video Databases IV, pags 144-155, San-Jose, California, February, 1996

A. Soffer, Retrieval by Content in Symbolic-Image Databases. PhD thesis, University of Maryland, 1996. (also available as Technical Report CS-3567, University of Maryland, College Park, MD).

H. Samet and A. Soffer, A Map Acquisition, Storage, Indexing, and Retrieval System, Third International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition,, pages 992-996, Montreal, Canada, August 1995.

H. Samet and A. Soffer, A legend-driven geographic symbol recognition system, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, volume II, pages 350-355, Jerusalem, Israel, October 1994.

A. Soffer and H. Samet, Two Approaches for Integrating Symbolic Images into a Database System: A Comparative Study. Submitted to IEEE Transcations on Knowledge and Data Engineering

H. Samet and A. Soffer, MAGELLAN: Map Acquisition of Geographic Labels by Legend Analysis. Technical Report CS-TR-3386, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, December 1994. Submitted to IEEE transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.

H. Samet and A. Soffer, Integrating images into a relational database system. Technical Report CS-TR-3371, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, October 1994.


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