@techreport{TR-IC-07-29, number = {IC-07-29}, author = {Anderson Rocha and Jurandy Almeida and Ricardo Torres and Siome Goldenstein}, title = {A new Hybrid Clustering Approach for Image Retrieval}, month = {September}, year = {2007}, institution = {Institute of Computing, University of Campinas}, note = {In English, 15 pages. \par\selectlanguage{english}\textbf{Abstract} In this paper, we present a new Hybrid Hierarchical Clustering approach for Image Retrieval. Our method combines features from both divisive and agglomerative clustering paradigms in order to yield good-quality clustering solutions with reduced computational cost. We provide several experiments showing that our technique reduces the number of required comparisons to perform a retrieval without significant loss in effectiveness when compared to flat-based solutions. } }