基于四元数傅里叶梅林变换的旋转不变彩色纹理分类

提出一种基于四元数傅里叶梅林变换(Quaternion Fourier-Mellin Transform,QFMT)的旋转不变彩色纹理分类方法。该方法首先对彩色图像各分量图像进行对数极坐标变换,然后将经过变换后的3幅分量图像表示成四元数,并对其进行四元数傅里叶变换(Quaternion Fourier Transform,QFT),最后对幅度谱分别统计其环形特征量和楔形特征量作为纹理分类的特征向量,利用最近邻分类器进行分类。实验结果表明,本文提出的方法分类准确率更高,且具有良好的旋转不变纹理分析性能。     

基于旋转不变纹理特征的多尺度多方向图像渐进检索

纹理检索是基于内容图像检索的重要内容,旋转不变纹理图像检索是实现纹理检索的关键途径之一.针对旋转不变纹理图像检索中需要解决的3个关键问题:如何消除旋转影响、如何选择多尺度分析方法以及如何构造和度量纹理特征矢量,本文分别分析了Radon变换和Log-polar变换在消除旋转位移时对频谱的影响,以及NSCT变换和小波变换在不同检索参数下的平均检索性能,在此基础上构造出多尺度多方向纹理变换谱和旋转不变特征矢量,提出一种多尺度多方向旋转不变纹理图像渐进检索方法.这种方法采用了可顾及人类视觉对纹理能量敏感性的相似性度量标准,分别采用旋转位移处理后的NSCT变换域低频子带和高通子带实现纹理图像的粗检索和精细检索.Brodatz标准纹理图像库的检索实验表明,本文提出的利用多尺度多方向纹理变换谱构造旋转不变特征矢量的方法既可获取纹理主方向,同时又能有效地表征纹理细节信息,两级渐进式检索策略与多尺度分析方法相结合,既能提高旋转不变纹理图像检索的查准率,又能保证较高的检索效率.     

基于尺度相关性的旋转不变纹理图像渐进式检索算法

在常用的基于小波变换域旋转不变纹理图像检索算法中,由于存在方向信息提取有限且多尺度间系数相关性被忽略的局限性,检索效率受到影响。提出一种基于尺度相关性的渐进式旋转不变纹理图像检索算法。该算法首先采用Log-polar变换与非下采样Contourlet变换组合的方式获取具备旋转不变性的多尺度多方向变换系数,然后利用广义高斯模型拟合低通波段的全局结构信息作为粗判依据,方向子带间的尺度相关信息则采用非高斯双变量模型拟合,并作为精细渐进式检索的特征变量。基于Brodatz标准纹理库的实验结果表明,与小波变换及基于层内关系模型方法相比,该方法能以更低的特征维数获得更高的检索效率及检索准确率,是一种进行旋转纹理检索的有效手段。     

基于Gabor小波变换的医学图像纹理特征分类

Gabor小波变换技术对医学CT图像进行纹理特征分类时,由于图像拍摄角度的变化会造成分类的误差。针对以上问题,在Gabor小波变换的基础上提出一种用于分析旋转不变医学图像的方法。该方法采用旋转规范化,即特征元素的循环移位使规范化后所有的图像都具有相同的主方向。实验结果表明,加入旋转规范化循环算子的Gabor小波变换在医学CT图像纹理特征分类时能够达到较好的精确度。     

基于Log-Polar和DT-CWT的旋转不变纹理分类算法

提出了一种基于对数-极坐标变换和双树复数小波变换的旋转不变纹理分类算法。该方法首先对纹理图像进行对数-极坐标变换将旋转转化为平移,再用具有平移不变性的双树复数小波对变换后的图像滤波并计算各子带的能量值组成旋转不变特征向量,最后利用支持向量机算法实现纹理图像的分类。将本方法与其它旋转不变纹理分类算法进行比较,实验结果表明,提出的算法能有效地提高正确分类率。     

基于四元数小波变换及多分形特征的纹理分类

将四元数小波变换(QWT)和多分形相结合进行纹理分类,充分利用了QWT的旋转不变特性和纹理图像的多分形特性,能弥补传统的应用小波变换进行纹理分类时缺乏将输入图像分解成多个方向的不足。通过对UIUC数据库中的纹理图像分类,表明四元数小波与多分形相结合的方法具有较高的分类精度,平均分类正确率可达96.69%,是一种合理有效的纹理分类方法。     

一种快速旋转不变图像检索新方法*

提出了一种新型快速旋转不变图像检索新方法.该方法首先对图像进行傅里叶变换和功率谱分解,提取功率谱的扇形区域能量和环形区域能量参数,并将其均值和标准差作为图像纹理特征.然后,利用谱能量分布特征把纹理的主方向旋转到0°,提取旋转后图像的共生矩阵参数和小波分解各子带图像统计参数作为基本特征.利用所提出的特征提取方法在两组分别包含25类单色自然纹理的图像库上进行检索试验.结果表明,该方法获得了良好的检索效果.     

基于NSST和RI-LPQ的纹理图像检索

针对采用单一方法提取图像特征时检索率不高的问题,结合非下采样剪切波变换(NSST)统计特征和旋转不变的局部相位量化(RI-LPQ)原理,提出一种纹理图像检索方法。非下采样剪切波不仅具有方向选择性及平移不变性,而且可以对图像进行有效的稀疏表示,与传统小波相比,可有效捕捉图像的边缘轮廓等纹理信息,与非下采样轮廓波相比,具有更高的计算效率。利用广义高斯分布函数对图像NSST高频子带系数的统计特征进行分析,RI-LPQ描述算子直接提取图像特征,采用具有权重系数的相似性测度公式对Brodatz图像库进行纹理图像检索。实验结果表明,与传统小波和轮廓波的方法相比,NSST统计特征方法的平均检索率分别提高4.77%和1.44%,纹理图像检索方法的平均检索率分别提高7.36%和1.98%。     

基于兴趣点的图像检索方法研究

提出了基于兴趣点的多种图像特征相结合的图像检索新方法。该方法利用兴趣点周围局部区域的环形颜色直方图和Gabor小波变换提取纹理特征作为刻画图像的主要特征,并结合兴趣点的空间分布对图像进行检索。该方法不仅弥补了单一特征无法真正表征图像的缺陷,还保证了检索算法对图像旋转、平移的识别不变性。与同类方法相比,该方法有效提高了图像检索的准确率。     

利用图像颜色特征与纹理特征进行图像检索

基于内容的图像检索主要是利用图像的特征,如:颜色直方图、纹理、形状等来进行检索,这种方式能够提高检索的效率与准确率.利用图像的颜色信息与利用快速傅立叶变换来提取纹理特征相结合的方法来进行图像检索,该方法一方面可以反映图像的全局特征,另一方面又反映了图像的局部特征,且具有对图像检索的旋转不变性.     

A novel scale and rotation invariant texture image retrieval method using fuzzy logic classifier

A novel approach for content-based texture image retrieval system using fuzzy logic classifier is proposed in this paper. The novelty of this method is demonstrated by handling the complexity issues in texture image retrieval arising from rotation and scale variance. These issues are divided into four groups as non rotated non scaled, rotation invariant, scale invariant and scale and rotation invariant texture retrieval for retrieval performance analysis. Features of texture images are obtained using discrete wavelet transform based statistical features and gray level co-occurrence matrix based co-occurrence features. The fuzzy logic classifier is developed with Gaussian membership function with mean and standard deviations of the features. The retrieval performance improvement is carried out by considering various combinations of the features. The average retrieval rates for the four issues have been achieved at 99.40% with 40 features, 91% with 80 features, 65.2% with 40 features, and 63.4% with 65 features respectively. This method outperforms the existing methods in terms of average retrieval rate. The scale and rotation invariant texture retrieval is an incomparable work that has been demonstrated in the present paper.     

Extraction of major object features using VQ clustering for content-based image retrieval

An image representation method using vector quantization (VQ) on color and texture is proposed in this paper. The proposed method is also used to retrieve similar images from database systems. The basic idea is a transformation from the raw pixel data to a small set of image regions, which are coherent in color and texture space. A scheme is provided for object-based image retrieval. Features for image retrieval are the three color features (hue, saturation, and value) from the HSV color model and five textural features (ASM, contrast, correlation, variance, and entropy) from the gray-level co-occurrence matrices. Once the features are extracted from an image, eight-dimensional feature vectors represent each pixel in the image. The VQ algorithm is used to rapidly cluster those feature vectors into groups. A representative feature table based on the dominant groups is obtained and used to retrieve similar images according to the object within the image. This method can retrieve similar images even in cases where objects are translated, scaled, and rotated.     

Visual object retrieval via block-based visual-pattern matching

This paper presents an object-based image retrieval using a method based on visual-pattern matching. A visual pattern is obtained by detecting the line edge from a square block using the moment-preserving edge detector. It is desirable and yet remains as a challenge for querying multimedia data by finding an object inside a target image. Given an object model, an added difficulty is that the object might be translated, rotated, and scaled inside a target image. Object segmentation and recognition is the primary step of computer vision for applying to image retrieval of higher-level image analysis. However, automatic segmentation and recognition of objects via object models is a difficult task without a priori knowledge about the shape of objects. Instead of segmentation and detailed object representation, the objective of this research is to develop and apply computer vision methods that explore the structure of an image object by visual-pattern detection to retrieve images from a database. A voting scheme based on generalized Hough transform is proposed to provide object search method, which is invariant to the translation, rotation, scaling of image data, and hence, invariant to orientation and position. Computer simulation results show that the proposed method gives good performance in terms of retrieval accuracy and robustness.     

综合颜色和形状特征聚类的图像检索

为了提高图像检索的速度和准确率,通过分析各种聚类算法在图像检索中的缺点,提出了一种新的划分聚类的图像检索方法。首先对HSV模型非均匀量化,利用改进的颜色聚合向量方法提取图像的颜色特征;然后基于改进的Hu不变矩提取图像的全局形状特征;最后,综合颜色和形状特征对图像基于贡献度聚类并建立特征索引库。利用上述方法在Corel图像库中进行图像检索。实验结果表明,与改进的K-means算法的图像检索算法相比,提出算法的查准率和查全率均有较大提高。     

多尺度最稳定极限区域仿射不变特征

基于局部区域的仿射不变特征被广泛应用于目标识别、场景分类和图像检索.在已经提出的仿射不变局部特征中,最稳定极限区域特征MSER(maximally stable extremal region)在多个方面具有优越的性能.但是由于最稳定极限区域特征MSER是从单一尺度图像中提取的,当图像尺度发生较大变化时,图像的模糊会使最稳定极限区域特征的边界发生变化,从而影响特征的稳定性.针对这一问题,通过定义多尺度空间中极限区域的稳定性指标,提出一种在图像空间和尺度空间都最稳定的极限区域特征,并设计了在尺度空间进行极限区域提取的快速算法.同时,针对极限区域可以较好地描述特征轮廓的特点,将局部灰度梯度信息和形状信息相结合设计了一种新的特征描述器.这种特征被称为多尺度最稳定极限区域MMSER(multi-scale maximally stable extremal region)特征.实验结果表明,在不同仿射变化条件下,MMSER的稳定性和可识别性均优于MSER,而且其描述器的创建时间约为SIFT描述器的45%.     

基于形状特征和颜色的服装图像检索

提出将基于内容的图像检索用于电子购物中,首先利用不变矩的形状特征检索,为提高检索效果引入离心率特征,接着再利用改进的颜色直方图进行检索。通过实验证明该方法的有效性和可行性。     

Rotation-invariant texture image retrieval using rotated complex wavelet filters.

This paper proposes a novel approach for rotation-invariant texture image retrieval by using set of dual-tree rotated complex wavelet filter (DT-RCWF) and DT complex wavelet transform (DT-CWT) jointly, which obtains texture features in 12 different directions. Two-dimensional RCWFs are nonseparable and oriented, which improves characterization of oriented textures. Robust and efficient isotropic rotationally invariant features are extracted from DT-RCWF and DT-CWT decomposed subbands. This paper demonstrates the effectiveness of this new set of features on four different sets of rotated and nonrotated databases. Experimental results indicate that the proposed method improves retrieval accuracy from 83.17% to 93.71% on a small size (208 images) nonrotated database D1, from 82.71% to 90.86% on a small size (208 images) rotated database D2, from 72.18% to 76.09% on a medium-size (640 images) rotated database D3, and from 64.17% to 78.93% on a large size (1856 images) rotated database D4, compared with the discrete wavelet transform-based approach. New method also retains comparable levels of computational complexity.     

基于多特征融合和Adaboost算法的图像检索

提出了一种多特征融合的图像检索方法。首先将图像进行分块,并提取分块主色,然后采用主色直方图作为图像的颜色特征。同时,提出采用Gabor小波描述图像的纹理特征,采用小波矩描述形状特征,最后将三种不同特征进行融合的检索方法。为了提高图像检索的准确度,提出Adaboost的相关反馈算法,在反馈过程中,Adaboost算法对特征进行降维,加快检索的速度。最后分别给出基于单一特征,特征融合和相关反馈方法的查准率和查全率,并对实验结果进行分析。     

Pulse-coupled neural networks and one-class support vector machines for geometry invariant texture retrieval

The pulse-coupled neural network (PCNN) has been widely used in image processing. The outputs of PCNN represent unique features of original stimulus and are invariant to translation, rotation, scaling and distortion, which is particularly suitable for feature extraction. In this paper, PCNN and intersecting cortical model (ICM), which is a simplified version of PCNN model, are applied to extract geometrical changes of rotation and scale invariant texture features, then an one-class support vector machine based classification method is employed to train and predict the features. The experimental results show that the pulse features outperform of the classic Gabor features in aspects of both feature extraction time and retrieval accuracy, and the proposed one-class support vector machine based retrieval system is more accurate and robust to geometrical changes than the traditional Euclidean distance based system.