TY - JFULL AU - C. Sheng and Y. Xin PY - 2007/12/ TI - Shape-Based Image Retrieval Using Shape Matrix T2 - International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering SP - 3743 EP - 3747 VL - 1 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/703 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 11, 2007 N2 - Retrieval image by shape similarity, given a template shape is particularly challenging, owning to the difficulty to derive a similarity measurement that closely conforms to the common perception of similarity by humans. In this paper, a new method for the representation and comparison of shapes is present which is based on the shape matrix and snake model. It is scaling, rotation, translation invariant. And it can retrieve the shape images with some missing or occluded parts. In the method, the deformation spent by the template to match the shape images and the matching degree is used to evaluate the similarity between them. ER -