Parallelized Algorithms for Finding Similar Images and Object Recognition

The paper addresses the issue of searching for similar images and objects ina repository of information. The contained images are annotated with the helpof the sparse descriptors. In the presented research, different color and edgehistogram descriptors were used. To measure similarities among images, variouscolor descriptors are compared. For this purpose different distance measureswere employed. In order to decrease execution time, several code optimizationand parallelization methods are proposed. Results of these experiments, as wellas discussion of the advantages and limitations of different combinations ofmethods are presented