Intelligent Mining in Image Databases, with Applications to Satellite Imaging and to Web Search

Authors

Stephen Gibson
Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Luc Longpre, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Brian Penn
Scott A. Starks, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow

Publication Date

1-2000

Comments

UTEP-CS-00-02.

Published in: A. Kandel, H. Bunke, and M. Last (eds.), Data Mining and Computational Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2001, pp. 309-336.

Abstract

An important part of our knowledge is in the form of images. For example, a large amount of geophysical and environmental data comes from satellite photos, a large amount of the information stored on the Web is in the form of images, etc. It is therefore desirable to use this image information in data mining. Unfortunately, most existing data mining techniques have been designed for mining numerical data and are thus not well suited for image databases. Hence, new methods are needed for image mining. In this paper, we show how data mining can be used to find common patterns in several images.