Museums, libraries, national archives and art galleries
deal with visual objects that must be made accessible to a
wide variety of experts or non-experts like researchers, art lovers
or interested people. The ability to identify objects sharing some
aspect of visual similarity can be useful when trying to trace
historical influences or when looking for further examples of
paintings, sculptures or other cultural objects appealing to their
taste. In this direction, we use our recent detector (WαSH) for an
image retrieval task on a subset of Europeana’s1 content. The
detector produces distinctive features by grouping sampled image
edges according to proper shape stability measures. We evaluate
the detector by integrating it into the Visual Search Engine for
Europeana (Vieu) tool.