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Figure 7: The histogram of the average dimension of the Google set.
6 The Google Set
The Google set is from the search results based on the keywords that matches
the PRCG set. The keywords are architecture, nature scene, landscape,
animal, building, people, scenery, indoor, object, machine, insect, interior,
plant, forest, vehicle, fruit and statue. The images are filtered subjectively
to include only PIM of size larger than 300 pixels for the width or the height,
whichever smaller. The size of the Google images varies between 315 pixels
and 1500 pixels in average dimension, (width + height)/2, with the mean
at 660 pixels. Figure 7 shows the histogram of the average dimension of the
Google set.
7 The Recaptured PRCG Set
The recaptured PRCG set consists of the photographed screen display of the
800 images from the PRCG set. PRCG are displayed on a 17-inch LCD mon-
itor screen with a display resolution of 1280x1024 pixels and photographed
by a Canon G3 digital camera mounted on a tripod at a distance of four
feet in front of the screen. The captured images have a resolution 1024x768
pixels and of a high quality JPEG compression. The camera operates at
the time-priority mode where the shutter speed is set to 1/4 seconds while
the aperture size and focal length are set automatic. The acquisition is con-
ducted in a dark room in order to reduce the reflections from the ambient
scene.
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