10. The system of claim 1 wherein said method further includes the step of determining the pictorial edit distance between each key-image and all or a subset of images from said database.
10. The system of claim 1 wherein said method further includes the step of determining the pictorial edit distance between each key-image and all or a subset of images from said database. 11. The system of claim 10 wherein said method further includes the step of applying a similarity inverse matrix to improve the results of the calculation of a pictorial edit distance between said key-images and images from said database.