Computer and communication technologies created new modes of creating and sharing arts. In this paper, we apply ‘diffusion of innovation’ theory to investigate how artistic content travels in an online social network site called deviantArt, a site designed for sharing user-generated...

An entropy-based image segmentation approach is introduced and applied to color images obtained from Google Earth. Segmentation refers to the process of partitioning a digital image in order to locate different objects and regions of interest. The application to satellite images paves the way to...

In this paper, Focus is on texture as primary feature. Shape and spatial information were secondary features. Texture features derived from nine grid sizes of independent and different Gabor filter banks were incorporated into the CBIR system by taking advantage of the fact that each grid size...