基于内容的图像检索

基于内容的图像检索技术在数字图书馆、网络信息安全、预防犯罪、知识产权、医疗诊断、地理信息系统及遥感等领域有着广泛的应用。他是目前图像检索技术中比较前沿的研究热点。对基于内容的检索技术的研究意义和研究现状进行了阐述;着重介绍了基于内容(颜色、纹理、形状)的图像检索技术;最后介绍了基于内容的图像检索的发展方向。     

CLUE: cluster-based retrieval of images by unsupervised learning.

In a typical content-based image retrieval (CBIR) system, target images (images in the database) are sorted by feature similarities with respect to the query. Similarities among target images are usually ignored. This paper introduces a new technique, cluster-based retrieval of images by unsupervised learning (CLUE), for improving user interaction with image retrieval systems by fully exploiting the similarity information. CLUE retrieves image clusters by applying a graph-theoretic clustering algorithm to a collection of images in the vicinity of the query. Clustering in CLUE is dynamic. In particular, clusters formed depend on which images are retrieved in response to the query. CLUE can be combined with any real-valued symmetric similarity measure (metric or nonmetric). Thus, it may be embedded in many current CBIR systems, including relevance feedback systems. The performance of an experimental image retrieval system using CLUE is evaluated on a database of around 60,000 images from COREL. Empirical results demonstrate improved performance compared with a CBIR system using the same image similarity measure. In addition, results on images returned by Google's Image Search reveal the potential of applying CLUE to real-world image data and integrating CLUE as a part of the interface for keyword-based image retrieval systems.     

A similarity learning approach to content-based image retrieval: application to digital mammography

In this paper, we describe an approach to content-based retrieval of medical images from a database, and provide a preliminary demonstration of our approach as applied to retrieval of digital mammograms. Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) refers to the retrieval of images from a database using information derived from the images themselves, rather than solely from accompanying text indices. In the medical-imaging context, the ultimate aim of CBIR is to provide radiologists with a diagnostic aid in the form of a display of relevant past cases, along with proven pathology and other suitable information. CBIR may also be useful as a training tool for medical students and residents. The goal of information retrieval is to recall from a database information that is relevant to the user's query. The most challenging aspect of CBIR is the definition of relevance (similarity), which is used to guide the retrieval machine. In this paper, we pursue a new approach, in which similarity is learned from training examples provided by human observers. Specifically, we explore the use of neural networks and support vector machines to predict the user's notion of similarity. Within this framework we propose using a hierarchal learning approach, which consists of a cascade of a binary classifier and a regression module to optimize retrieval effectiveness and efficiency. We also explore how to incorporate online human interaction to achieve relevance feedback in this learning framework. Our experiments are based on a database consisting of 76 mammograms, all of which contain clustered microcalcifications (MCs). Our goal is to retrieve mammogram images containing similar MC clusters to that in a query. The performance of the retrieval system is evaluated using precision-recall curves computed using a cross-validation procedure. Our experimental results demonstrate that: 1) the learning framework can accurately predict the perceptual similarity reported by human observers, thereby serving as a basis for CBIR; 2) the learning-based framework can significantly outperform a simple distance-based similarity metric; 3) the use of the hierarchical two-stage network can improve retrieval performance; and 4) relevance feedback can be effectively incorporated into this learning framework to achieve improvement in retrieval precision based on online interaction with users; and 5) the retrieved images by the network can have predicting value for the disease condition of the query.     

一种基于区域的动态分块图象检索方法

本文提出一种新颖的基于内容和图像检索方法，基于运动子块分割并根据视觉特性对不同区域做不同的加权，比较各子块相似度，分析相似度矩阵，并检索查询物体。通过将图象分割细化，充分利用了原图的颜色位置信息，通过实验，实现了对特定物体进行检索。该物体检索方法可进一步发展，为特定的后续处理奠定基础，如在人脸识别等功能中发挥重要作用。     

A CBIR system based on saliency driven local image features and multi orientation texture features

In Content-based Image Retrieval (CBIR), the user provides the query image in which only a selective portion of the image carries the foremost vital information known as the object region of the image. However, the human visual system also focuses on a particular salient region of an image to instinctively understand its semantic meaning. Therefore, the human visual attention technique can be well imposed in the CBIR scheme. Inspired by these facts, we initially utilized the signature saliency map-based approach to decompose the image into its respective main object region (ObR) and non-object region (NObR). ObR possesses most of the vital image information, so block-level normalized singular value decomposition (SVD) has been used to extract salient features of the ObR. In most natural images, NObR plays a significant role in understanding the actual semantic meaning of the image. Accordingly, multi-directional texture features have been extracted from NObR using Gabor filter on different wavelengths. Since the importance of ObR and NObR features are not equal, a new homogeneity-based similarity matching approach has been devised to enhance retrieval accuracy. Finally, we have demonstrated retrieval performances using both the combined and distinct ObR and NObR features on seven standard coral, texture, object, and heterogeneous datasets. The experimental outcomes show that the proposed CBIR system has a promising retrieval efficiency and outperforms various existing systems substantially.     

Medical image categorization and retrieval for PACS using the GMM-KL framework.

This paper presents an image representation and matching framework for image categorization in medical image archives. Categorization enables one to determine automatically, based on the image content, the examined body region and imaging modality. It is a basic step in content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems, the goal of which is to augment text-based search with visual information analysis. CBIR systems are currently being integrated with picture archiving and communication systems for increasing the overall search capabilities and tools available to radiologists. The proposed methodology is comprised of a continuous and probabilistic image representation scheme using Gaussian mixture modeling (GMM) along with information-theoretic image matching via the Kullback-Leibler (KL) measure. The GMM-KL framework is used for matching and categorizing X-ray images by body regions. A multidimensional feature space is used to represent the image input, including intensity, texture, and spatial information. Unsupervised clustering via the GMM is used to extract coherent regions in feature space that are then used in the matching process. A dominant characteristic of the radiological images is their poor contrast and large intensity variations. This presents a challenge to matching among the images, and is handled via an illumination-invariant representation. The GMM-KL framework is evaluated for image categorization and image retrieval on a dataset of 1500 radiological images. A classification rate of 97.5% was achieved. The classification results compare favorably with reported global and local representation schemes. Precision versus recall curves indicate a strong retrieval result as compared with other state-of-the-art retrieval techniques. Finally, category models are learned and results are presented for comparing images to learned category models.     

一种基于颜色视觉敏感度的特征提取算法

特征选择技术对于图像检索系统有效实现相关目标的识别具有重要的意义.依据视觉生理学和视觉心理学关于不同颜色间存在敏感度差异的理论,并利用Stevens法则和HSV颜色空间的六棱锥模型,提出了一种构造颜色敏感度函数的算法.新算法以主观信息量多少为评价标准,通过系数补偿,实现了显著程度不同颜色间特征幅值的平衡,从而提高了检索特征与感知特征的一致性.实验结果证明了新算法能够稳定、有效地提升图像检索系统的性能.     

基于分块颜色特征和相关反馈的图像检索技术

在基于内容的图像检索(CBIR)中,对于传统的颜色直方图完全没有空间分布信息,提出了一种新的分块划分,并且结合颜色特征的图像检索方法。该方法结合了图像的整体与分块颜色分布,两幅图像之间的相似度为整体相似度和分块局部相似度的加权和,并且在检索中加入相关反馈技术,针对检索结果适当地调整权值,以达到更新图像整体与局部颜色特征的权重的目的。最后,实验结果表明该算法能很好地提高检索性能。     

Active learning methods for interactive image retrieval.

Active learning methods have been considered with increased interest in the statistical learning community. Initially developed within a classification framework, a lot of extensions are now being proposed to handle multimedia applications. This paper provides algorithms within a statistical framework to extend active learning for online content-based image retrieval (CBIR). The classification framework is presented with experiments to compare several powerful classification techniques in this information retrieval context. Focusing on interactive methods, active learning strategy is then described. The limitations of this approach for CBIR are emphasized before presenting our new active selection process RETIN. First, as any active method is sensitive to the boundary estimation between classes, the RETIN strategy carries out a boundary correction to make the retrieval process more robust. Second, the criterion of generalization error to optimize the active learning selection is modified to better represent the CBIR objective of database ranking. Third, a batch processing of images is proposed. Our strategy leads to a fast and efficient active learning scheme to retrieve sets of online images (query concept). Experiments on large databases show that the RETIN method performs well in comparison to several other active strategies.     

基于内容的图像检索技术研究

在对海量的图像数据进行检索时,传统的基于数值/字符的信息检索技术并不能满足要求.因此,基于内容的图像检索技术(CBIR:Content-Based Image Retrieval)的研究应运而生,并引起了广泛关注.本文主要讨论CBIR研究中的一些关键问题:图像的内容特征及其提取、特征之间的相似度计算、查询条件的表达、检索性能的评价、压缩域的图像检索技术等等,并指出了一些可值得深入研究的方向.     

基于三元采样图卷积网络的半监督遥感图像检索

该文提出了一种基于三元采样图卷积网络的度量学习方法,以实现遥感图像的半监督检索。所提方法由三元图卷积网络(TGCN)和基于图的三元组采样(GTS)两部分组成。TGCN由3个具有共享权重的并行卷积神经网络和图卷积网络组成,用以提取图像的初始特征以及学习图像的图嵌入。通过同时学习图像特征以及图嵌入,TGCN能够得到用于半监督图像检索的有效图结构。接着,通过提出的GTS算法对图结构内隐含的图像相似性信息进行评价,以选择合适的困难三元组(Hard Triplet),并利用困难三元组组成的样本集合对模型进行有效快速的模型训练。通过TGCN和GTS的组合,提出的度量学习方法在两个遥感数据集上进行了测试。实验结果表明,TGCN-GTS具有以下两方面的优越性：TGCN能够根据图像及图结构学习到有效的图嵌入特征及度量空间;GTS有效评估图结构内隐含的图像相似性信息选择合适的困难三元组,显著提升了半监督遥感图像检索效果。     

Semantic content-based image retrieval: A comprehensive study

The complexity of multimedia contents is significantly increasing in the current digital world. This yields an exigent demand for developing highly effective retrieval systems to satisfy human needs. Recently, extensive research efforts have been presented and conducted in the field of content-based image retrieval (CBIR). The majority of these efforts have been concentrated on reducing the semantic gap that exists between low-level image features represented by digital machines and the profusion of high-level human perception used to perceive images. Based on the growing research in the recent years, this paper provides a comprehensive review on the state-of-the-art in the field of CBIR. Additionally, this study presents a detailed overview of the CBIR framework and improvements achieved; including image preprocessing, feature extraction and indexing, system learning, benchmarking datasets, similarity matching, relevance feedback, performance evaluation, and visualization. Finally, promising research trends, challenges, and our insights are provided to inspire further research efforts.     

一种自适应提取最优特征维的相关反馈算法

本文提出一种新的相关反馈算法,该算法依据用户的反馈信息自适应选取用户最感兴趣的特征维用于图像检索,并结合正负反馈图像集的预处理,图像检索精确度得到较大提高。算法在500幅和4500幅两个图像库中做了实验,通过与RuiY特征内相关反馈算法的比较,验证了算法的高效性。     

基于视觉感知的图像检索的研究

基于内容图像检索的一个突出问题是图像低层特征与高层语义之间存在的巨大鸿沟.针对相关反馈和感兴趣区检测在弥补语义鸿沟时存在主观性强、耗时的缺点,提出了视觉信息是一种客观反映图像高层语义的新特征,基于视觉信息进行图像检索可以有效减小语义鸿沟;并在总结视觉感知的研究进展和实现方法的基础上,给出了基于视觉感知的图像检索在感兴趣区检测、图像分割、相关反馈和个性化检索四个方面的研究思路.     

基于内容的图像检索与MPEG-7

随着数字图像信息的高速膨胀与增加,基于内容的图像检索技术已经成为了一个被广泛关注的研究领域.与此同时,国际标准MPEG-7的制定,极大的促进了这一领域的发展.本文将主要对基于内容的图像检索的研究现状以及关键技术进行了分析,介绍了MPEG-7标准的相关内容,并在此基础上提出一种基于MPEG-7标准的图像检索系统模型.     

Hadoop云平台下的并行化图像处理实现

近年来,云计算在IT行业掀起了新一轮技术革新浪潮。云计算是一种新兴的计算模型,它是并行计算、分布式计算、网格计算的综合发展,以简单、透明服务的形式提供无限制的计算资源。Hadoop实现的开源云平台提供了并行计算模型MapReduce、分布式文件系统HDFS和分布式数据库HBase等。随着数字图像数据量不断增长,单机模式的图像处理已逐渐不能满足用户需求。文中提出了利用Hadoop云平台实现海量图像的并行     

基于内容的图像检索在病虫害管理中的应用

综述了我国目前森林病虫害管理的现状以及存在的不足，提出了将基于内容的图像检索技术应用在森林病虫害管理的新思路。然后分析了基于内客的图像检索技术的特点，森林病虫害管理的体系结构、主要技术的研究情况，以及基于内容的图像检索技术在森林病虫害管理中应用的重大意义。     

A new way for multidimensional medical data management: volume of interest (VOI)-based retrieval of medical images with visual and functional features.

The advances in digital medical imaging and storage in integrated databases are resulting in growing demands for efficient image retrieval and management. Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) refers to the retrieval of images from a database, using the visual features derived from the information in the image, and has become an attractive approach to managing large medical image archives. In conventional CBIR systems for medical images, images are often segmented into regions which are used to derive two-dimensional visual features for region-based queries. Although such approach has the advantage of including only relevant regions in the formulation of a query, medical images that are inherently multidimensional can potentially benefit from the multidimensional feature extraction which could open up new opportunities in visual feature extraction and retrieval. In this study, we present a volume of interest (VOI) based content-based retrieval of four-dimensional (three spatial and one temporal) dynamic PET images. By segmenting the images into VOIs consisting of functionally similar voxels (e.g., a tumor structure), multidimensional visual and functional features were extracted and used as region-based query features. A prototype VOI-based functional image retrieval system (VOI-FIRS) has been designed to demonstrate the proposed multidimensional feature extraction and retrieval. Experimental results show that the proposed system allows for the retrieval of related images that constitute similar visual and functional VOI features, and can find potential applications in medical data management, such as to aid in education, diagnosis, and statistical analysis.     

Local tetra patterns: a new feature descriptor for content-based image retrieval

In this paper, we propose a novel image indexing and retrieval algorithm using local tetra patterns (LTrPs) for content-based image retrieval (CBIR). The standard local binary pattern (LBP) and local ternary pattern (LTP) encode the relationship between the referenced pixel and its surrounding neighbors by computing gray-level difference. The proposed method encodes the relationship between the referenced pixel and its neighbors, based on the directions that are calculated using the first-order derivatives in vertical and horizontal directions. In addition, we propose a generic strategy to compute nth-order LTrP using (n - 1)th-order horizontal and vertical derivatives for efficient CBIR and analyze the effectiveness of our proposed algorithm by combining it with the Gabor transform. The performance of the proposed method is compared with the LBP, the local derivative patterns, and the LTP based on the results obtained using benchmark image databases viz., Corel 1000 database (DB1), Brodatz texture database (DB2), and MIT VisTex database (DB3). Performance analysis shows that the proposed method improves the retrieval result from 70.34%/44.9% to 75.9%/48.7% in terms of average precision/average recall on database DB1, and from 79.97% to 85.30% and 82.23% to 90.02% in terms of average retrieval rate on databases DB2 and DB3, respectively, as compared with the standard LBP.