88% of features (or the votes of the last 88% of words) are not necessary to select the highest scored image.[]{data-label="easy_search"}](./images/430.jpg "fig:"){width=".21\textwidth"}
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   ![Easy search. The Query image (a) has been matched to (b). (c) shows the histogram of images’ scores after vector-quantizing 12% of features. The peak of the histogram (shown by the red arrow) does not change until the last histogram (d) when all features have been processed. This means processing the last 88% of features (or the votes of the last 88% of words) are not necessary to select the highest scored image.[]{data-label="easy_search"}](./images/easy_query88percent_newcol_odd_996_peak430_firsthist.eps "fig:"){width=".22\textwidth"}   ![Easy search. The Query image (a) has been matched to (b). (c) shows the histogram of images’ scores after vector-quantizing 12% of features. The peak of the histogram (shown by the red arrow) does not change until the last histogram (d) when all features have been processed. This means processing the last 88% of features (or the votes of the last 88% of words) are not necessary to select the highest scored image.[]{data-label="easy_search"}](./images/easy_query88percent_newcol_odd_996_peak430_lasthist.eps "fig:"){width=".223\textwidth"}
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Our method builds upon the voting scheme of BoW; See Table \[alg:mapping\]. The features are selected randomly to be vector-quantized and are 