PT Unknown AU Hongxing Gao Marçal Rusiñol Dimosthenis Karatzas Apostolos Antonacopoulos Josep Llados TI An interactive appearance-based document retrieval system for historical newspapers BT Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications PY 2013 BP 84 EP 87 AB In this paper we present a retrieval-based application aimed at assisting a user to semi-automatically segment an incoming flow of historical newspaper images by automatically detecting a particular type of pages based on their appearance. A visual descriptor is used to assess page similarity while a relevance feedback process allow refining the results iteratively. The application is tested on a large dataset of digitised historic newspapers. ER