A New Content Based Image Retrieval Method Using Contourlet Transform

Subject Areas : Journal of Computer & Robotics

Farzad Zargari ¹ , Ali Mosleh ²

1 - Multimedia Systems Research Group, IT Research Institute, Iran Telecom Research Center, Tehran, Iran
2 - Department of Computer Engineering, Science & Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2009-01-15 Accepted : 2009-10-18 Published : 2012-06-11

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