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Visual Word

Visual words, as used in image retrieval systems, refer to small parts of an image that carry some kind of information related to the features (such as the color, shape, or texture) or changes occurring in the pixels such as the filtering, low-level feature descriptors (SIFT or SURF).

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Visual words, as used in image retrieval systems, refer to small parts of an image that carry some kind of information related to the features (such as the color, shape, or texture) or changes occurring in the pixels such as the filtering, low-level feature descriptors (SIFT or SURF).

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  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  3. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

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