Sketch-based retrieval of ClipArt drawings

• DOI: 10.1145/989863.989943
• Publication Date: 2004-07-20T15:55:38Z
• Authors: Manuel Fonseca; Bruno Barroso; Pedro Ribeiro; Joaquim Jorge
• Keywords: Bitmap; Sketch; Scalable Vector Graphics

These days there are a lot of vector drawings available for people to integrate into documents. come in variety formats, such as Corel, Postscript, CGM, WMF and recently SVG. Typically, ClipArt tend be archieved accessed by categories (e.g. food, shapes, transportation, etc.). However, find drawing among hundreds thousands is not an easy task. While text-driven attempts at classifying image data have been supplemented with query-by-image content, these developed bitmap-type cannot handle vectorial information. In this paper we present approach allow indexing retrieving content from large datasets. Our prototype can already databases using commodity hardware. Furthermore, preliminary usability assessments show promising results suggest good acceptance sketching query mechanism users.