A Visual Similarity Metric for View-based Web Page Retrieval

Abstract

We are developing a system for retrieving web browsing history based on visual information such as design and layout. This system's performance would be improved by refining the sketch retrieval results. For this purpose, we have developed “color-layout signature,” a visual similarity metric for web pages. We showed that use of the developed metric improves retrieval performance from 27%(conventional method) to 42%.