References

  1. S. Cohen and L. Guibas. The Earth Mover's Distance: Lower Bounds and Invariance under Translation. Technical Report STAN-CS-TR-97-1597, November 1997. (ps, pdf)

  2. G. Healey and D. Slater. Global Color Constancy : Recognition of Objects By Use of Illumination-Invariant Properties of Color Distributions. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 11(11):3003-3010, November 1994.

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  4. Y. Rubner and C. Tomasi. Texture Metrics. Proceeding of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, October 1998. To appear. ( Y. Rubner's publications)

  5. Y. Rubner, C. Tomasi, L. Guibas. The Earth Mover's Distance as a Metric for Image Retrieval. Technical Report STAN-CS-TN-98-86, September 1998. ( Y. Rubner's publications)

  6. Y. Rubner, C. Tomasi, L. Guibas. Adaptive Color-Image Embeddings for Database Navigation. Proceedings of the 1998 Asian Conference on Computer Vision, January 1998. ( Y. Rubner's publications)

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The ideas and results contained in this document are part of my thesis, which will be published as a Stanford computer science technical report in June 1999.

S. Cohen. Finding Color and Shape Patterns in Images. Thesis Technical Report STAN-CS-TR-99-?. To be published June 1999.

Similar ideas applied to the EMD under translation have already been published in the technical report [1].

Email comments to scohen@cs.stanford.edu.