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.     

Similarity learning for texture image retrieval using multiple classifier system

Multiple Classifier System has found its applications in many areas such as handwriting recognition, speaker recognition, medical diagnosis, fingerprint recognition, personal identification and others. However, there have been rare attempts to develop content-based image retrieval (CBIR) system that uses multiple classifiers to learn visual similarity. Texture as a primitive visual content is often used in many important applications (viz. Medical image analysis and medical CBIR system). In this paper, a texture image retrieval system is developed that learns the visual similarity in terms of class membership using multiple classifiers. The way proposed approach combines the decisions of multiple classifiers to obtain final class memberships of query for each of the output classes is also a novel concept. A modified distance that is weighted with the membership values obtained through similarity learning is used for ranking. Three different algorithms are proposed for the retrieval of images against a query image displaying the strength of multiple classifier approach, class membership score and their interplay to achieve the objective defined in terms of simplicity, retrieval effectiveness and speed. The proposed methods based on multiple classifiers achieve higher retrieval accuracy with lower standard deviation compared to all the competing methods irrespective of the texture database and feature set used. The multiple classifier retrieval schemes proposed here is tested for texture image retrieval. However, these can be used for any other challenging retrieval problems.     

JPEG compressed image retrieval via statistical features

To improve efficiency of compressed image retrieval, we propose a novel statistical feature extraction algorithm in this paper to characterize the image content directly in its compressed domain. The statistical feature extracted is mainly through computing a set of moments directly from DCT coefficients without involving full decompression or inverse DCT. Following the algorithm design, a content-based image retrieval system is implemented especially targeting retrieving joint picture expert group compressed images. Theoretical analysis and experimental results support that the system is robust to translation, rotation and scale transform with minor disturbance, and the system achieves good performances in terms of retrieval efficiency and effectiveness.     

Content-based image retrieval approach for biometric security using colour,texture and shape features controlled by fuzzy heuristics

In this paper, we discuss a new content-based image retrieval approach for biometric security, which is based on colour, texture and shape features and controlled by fuzzy heuristics. The proposed approach is based on the three well-known algorithms: colour histogram, texture and moment invariants. The use of these three algorithms ensures that the proposed image retrieval approach produces results which are highly relevant to the content of an image query, by taking into account the three distinct features of the image and similarity metrics based on Euclidean measure. Colour histogram is used to extract the colour features of an image. Gabor filter is used to extract the texture features and the moment invariant is used to extract the shape features of an image. The evaluation of the proposed approach is carried out using the standard precision and recall measures, and the results are compared with the well-known existing approaches. We present results which show that our proposed approach performs better than these approaches.     

Content-based image retrieval for categorized dataset by aggregating gradient and texture features

Neural Computing and Applications - Content-based image retrieval is the process of retrieving images similar to the Query Image. The task of finding the dissimilarity among the different objects...     

Radiological image retrieval technique using multi-resolution texture and shape features

Multimedia Tools and Applications - Medical image analysis plays a very indispensable role in providing the best possible medical support to a patient. With the rapid advancements in modern medical...     

综合纹理特征和语义信息的医学图像检索

提出一种结合图像分块纹理特征和语义信息的医学胸片图像检索方法。同时,介绍了颜色特征提取方法中的颜色相关图算法。据此,实现了一个图像检索原型系统,依据所设计的评价实验,将不同实验的检索结果进行了比较和分析。实验证明,结合图像分块纹理特征和语义信息的检索方法具有较好的检索效果。     

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.     

A multi-scale and multi-orientation image retrieval method based on rotation-invariant texture features

Texture retrieval is a vital branch of content-based image retrieval.Rotation-invariant texture retrieval plays a key role in texture retrieval.This paper addresses three major issues in rotation-invariant texture retrieval: how to select the texture measurement methods,how to alleviate the influence of rotation for texture retrieval and how to apply the proper multi-scale analysis theory for texture images.First,the spectrum influence between a Radon transform and a Log-polar transform was compared after t...     

综合纹理和形状特征的外观专利图像检索算法研究

针对外观设计专利图像背景多样性、复杂性以及形状特征突出等特点,提出了一种综合纹理和形状的检索算法.该方法首先采用基于物体内部结构纹理特征描述纹理,并用欧式距离取得其相似值,然后再用改进的加权欧式距离取得不变矩形状特征向量的相似值,经特征融合得到最终相似距离值.实验结果表明,该算法优于现有的其他算法,针对外观专利图像的检索,具有更高的查全率和查准率.     

Fractal indexing with the joint statistical properties and its application in texture image retrieval

Fractal image coding is a block-based scheme that exploits the self-similarity hiding within an image. Fractal parameters generated by the block-based scheme are quantitative measurements of self-similarity, and therefore they can be used to construct image signatures. By combining fractal parameters and collage error, a set of new statistical fractal signatures, such as histogram of collage error (HE), joint histogram of contrast scaling and collage error (JHSE), and joint histogram of range block mean and contrast scaling and collage error (JHMSE) is proposed. These fractal signatures effectively extract and reflect the statistical properties intrinsic in texture images. Hence, they provide new statistical features for use in texture image retrieval and identification. Furthermore, in order to reduce computational complexity of the JHMSE signature, the JHMSE signature is simplified to HM (histogram of range block mean) tJHSE and HM t HS (histogram of contrast scaling) tHE, based on the independence and distance equivalence. Mathematical analysis of the simplification scheme is also carried out. The proposed fractal signatures are compared with the existing fractal signatures. Experimental results show that the proposed signatures, HM t JHSE and HM t HS t HE, achieve a higher retrieval rate with a lower computational complexity.     

基于统计特征的DCT压缩域纹理图像检索方法

提出了一种基于离散余弦变换（Discrete Cosine Transfrom,DCT）的纹理图像的检索方法.该方法在DCT压缩域,通过直接对DCT系数计算,获得图像纹理的统计特征,并作为检索的依据.理论分析和实验结果都表明,该方法具有很好的检索准确率和效率,并且对于旋转具有不变性.     

基于提升小波提取颜色和纹理特征的图像检索方法

在概述小波变换提升算法基本理论的基础上,将Harr小波提升变换有效地运用于图像的颜色和纹理特征的提取,提出了一种将提升小波与图像分块结合起来提取颜色特征的方法,并开发出一个综合应用颜色和纹理特征进行图像检索的系统。实验结果表明,该方法具有明显的优越性和通用性。     

Color image retrieval using multispectral random field texture model and color content features

This paper describes a color-texture-based image retrieval system for query of an image database to find similar images to a target image. The color-texture information is obtained via modeling with the multispectral simultaneous autoregressive (MSAR) random field model. The general color content characterized by ratios of sample color means is also used. The retrieval process involves segmenting the image into regions of uniform color texture using an unsupervised histogram clustering approach that utilizes the combination of MSAR and color features. The color-texture content, location, area and shape of the segmented regions are used to develop similarity measures describing the closeness of a query image to database images. These attributes are derived from the maximum fitting square and best fitting ellipse to each of the segmented regions. The proposed similarity measure combines all these attributes to rank the closeness of the images. The performance of the system is tested on two databases containing synthetic mosaics of natural textures and natural scenes, respectively.     

A framework for linguistic relevance feedback in content-based image retrieval using fuzzy logic

We describe a new approach for exploiting relevance feedback in content-based image retrieval (CBIR). In our approach to relevance feedback we try to capture more of the users’ relevance judgments by allowing the use of natural language like comments on the retrieved images. Using methods from fuzzy logic and computational intelligence we are able to reflect these comments into new targets for searching the image database. Such enhanced information is utilized to develop a system that can provide more effective and efficient retrieval.     

基于模糊逻辑和纹理分析的图像增强算法研究

提出了基于模糊逻辑和纹理分析的图像增强算法,通过图像模糊化、提取纹理信息和纹理信息模糊化、定义局部对比度、根据全局和局部信息来进行对比度的变换等措施,提高了增强算法的效果。测试结果表明该算法能很好地增强图像的边缘等细节信息,同时避免放大噪声和过增强的出现。