Bag-of-Features Image Indexing and Classification in Microsoft SQL Server Relational Database

This paper presents a novel relational database architecture aimed to visual objects classification and retrieval. The framework is based on the bag-of-features image representation model combined with the Support Vector Machine classification and is integrated in a Microsoft SQL Server database.Comment: 2015 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Cybernetics (CYBCONF), Gdynia, Poland, 24-26 June 201

A new approach to image-based recommender systems with the application of heatmaps maps

One of the fundamental issues of modern society is access to interesting and useful content. As the amount of available content increases, this task becomes more and more challenging. Our needs are not always formulated in words; sometimes we have to use complex data types like images. In this paper, we consider the three approaches to creating recommender systems based on image data. The proposed systems are evaluated on a real-world dataset. Two case studies are presented. The first one presents the case of an item with many similar objects in a database, and the second one with only a few similar item