综合颜色纹理形状特征的图像检索

图像特征的提取和使用在基于内容的图像检索中至关重要.研究了在基于内容的图像检索系统中整合颜色,纹理,形状的提取方法.将图像按照一定的规则进行分块,对各个分块分别进行各种特征向量的提取.颜色特征的提取是基于YUV颜色空间的颜色直方图,纹理特征的提取采用Gabor滤波器,形状特征的提取是基于Zernike矩的计算.实验结果表明,综合图像的颜色、形状和纹理特征提高了图像检索的准确性.     

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...     

基于内容的多特征融合图像检索

提出一种组合颜色、形状和空间信息的图像检索方法,用颜色块的颜色直方图表示图像的颜色特征;使用Zernike矩表示图像的形状特征,通过提取颜色块的质心、分布方差聚散度等特征得到图像的空间特征。为了进一步提高图像检索的精确度,提出一种基于支持向量机的相关反馈方法。实验结果表明,基于组合特征的图像检索方法优于基于单一特征的检索方法。     

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 by using tree-structured features and multi-layer self-organizing map

A new approach for content-based image retrieval (CBIR) is described. In this study, a tree-structured image representation together with a multi-layer self-organizing map (MLSOM) is proposed for efficient image retrieval. In the proposed tree-structured image representation, a root node contains the global features, while child nodes contain the local region-based features. This approach hierarchically integrates more information of image contents to achieve better retrieval accuracy compared with global and region features individually. MLSOM in the proposed method provides effective compression and organization of tree-structured image data. This enables the retrieval system to operate at a much faster rate than that of directly comparing query images with all images in databases. The proposed method also adopts a relevance feedback scheme to improve the retrieval accuracy by a respectable level. Our obtained results indicate that the proposed image retrieval system is robust against different types of image alterations. Comparative results corroborate that the proposed CBIR system is promising in terms of accuracy, speed and robustness.     

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.     

基于颜色和纹理特征的彩色图像检索

提出了一种基于颜色和纹理特征的图像检索方法。在对HSV颜色模型量化处理的基础上,提取颜色直方图作为图像的颜色特征。在提取纹理特征时,结合颜色量化结果,设计了反映图像纹理变化的状态转移概率矩阵,在此基础上,提出采用颜色相关熵来描述图像的纹理特征。由于综合利用了图像的颜色及纹理特征,实验结果表明,该方法取得了较好的检索效果。     

基于内容的图像检索技术与医学图像检索

在分析基于内容的图像检索技术特点的基础上,提出了4种基于内容的图像检索方法,并对每种方法的实现特别是特征抽取进行了一定的研究。根据医学图像的使用特点,对基于内容的医学图像检索技术进行了初步的研究;对医学图像特征的抽取,应将重点放在形状特征和纹理特征的抽取上;同时,对医学图像进行检索,还可以使用颜色空间分布特征,来进一步进行相似匹配。     

Advancing content-based image retrieval by exploiting image color and region features

In this paper, we propose a novel system that strives to achieve advanced content-based image retrieval using seamless combination of two complementary approaches: on the one hand, we propose a new color-clustering method to better capture color properties of the original images; on the other hand, expecting that image regions acquired from the original images inevitably contain many errors, we make use of the available erroneous, ill-segmented image regions to accomplish the object-region-based image retrieval. We also propose an effective image-indexing scheme to facilitate fast and efficient image matching and retrieval. The carefully designed experimental evaluation shows that our proposed image retrieval system surpasses other methods under comparison in terms of not only quantitative measures, but also image retrieval capabilities.     

Content-based image retrieval methods

Creation of a content-based image retrieval system implies solving a number of difficult problems, including analysis of low-level image features and construction of feature vectors, multidimensional indexing, design of user interface, and data visualization. Quality of a retrieval system depends, first of all, on the feature vectors used, which describe image content. The paper presents a survey of common feature extraction and representation techniques and metrics of the corresponding feature spaces. Color, texture, and shape features are considered. A detailed classification of the currently known features’ representations is given. Experimental results on efficiency comparison of various methods for representing and comparing image content as applied to the retrieval and classification tasks are presented.     

一种综合颜色和纹理特征的图像检索算法

对图像颜色特征和纹理特征进行了研究。在图像颜色特征方面,利用人类的视觉特性,对图像不同分块的主色进行确认和加权处理,获得加权主色颜色特征;在纹理特征方面,利用统计法和结构法构造灰度-差分基元共生矩阵来提取纹理特征。在此基础上,通过高斯归一化方法将颜色特征和纹理特征进行综合,形成最后的图像检索特征,并给出了利用该特征的图像检索算法。实验结果表明,所提出的灰度-差分基元共生矩阵特征提取较传统的灰度共生矩阵特征更加精细,在此基础上综合利用颜色和纹理特征的图像检索方法具有更好的检索精度。     

An efficient color and texture based iris image retrieval technique

This paper proposes a hierarchical approach to retrieve an iris image efficiently from for a large iris database. This approach is a combination of both iris color and texture. Iris color is used for indexing and texture is used for retrieval of iris images from the indexed iris database. An index which is determined from the iris color is used to filter out the images that are not similar to the query image in color. Further, iris texture features of those filtered images, are used to determine the images which are similar to the query image. The iris color information helps to design an efficient indexing scheme based on color indices. The color indices are computed by averaging the intensity values of all red and blue color pixels. Kd-tree is used for real-time indexing based on color indices. The iris texture features are obtained through Speeded Up Robust Features (SURF) algorithm. These features are used to get the query’s corresponding image at the top best match. The performance of the proposed indexing scheme is compared with two well known iris indexing schemes ( [Mehrotra et al., 2010] and [Puhan and Sudha, 2008]) on UPOL (Dobeš, Machala, Tichavský, & Posp?´šil, 2004) and UBIRIS (Proencca & Alexandre, 2005) iris databases. It is observed that combination of iris color and texture improves the performance of iris recognition system.     

Content-based image retrieval by hierarchical linear subspace method

We describe a hierarchical linear subspace method to query large on-line image databases using image similarity as the basis of the queries. The method is based on the generic multimedia indexing (GEMINI) approach which is used in the IBM query through the image content search system. Our approach is demonstrated on image indexing, in which the subspaces correspond to different resolutions of the images. During content-based image retrieval, the search starts in the subspace with the lowest resolution of the images. In this subspace, the set of all possible similar images is determined. In the next subspace, additional metric information corresponding to a higher resolution is used to reduce this set. This procedure is repeated until the similar images can be determined. For evaluation we used three image databases and two different subspace sequences.     

Integrated color,texture and shape information for content-based image retrieval

Feature extraction and the use of the features as query terms are crucial problems in content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems. The main focus in this paper is on integrated color, texture and shape extraction methods for CBIR. We have developed original CBIR methodology that uses Gabor filtration for determining the number of regions of interest (ROIs), in which fast and effective feature extraction is performed. In the ROIs extracted, texture features based on thresholded Gabor features, color features based on histograms, color moments in YUV space, and shape features based on Zernike moments are then calculated. The features presented proved to be efficient in determining similarity between images. Our system was tested on postage stamp images and Corel photo libraries and can be used in CBIR applications such as postal services.     

An effective method for color image retrieval based on texture

This paper presents an effective color image retrieval method based on texture, which uses the color co-occurrence matrix to extract the texture feature and measure the similarity of two color images. Due to the color information such as components and distribution is also taken into consideration, the feature obtained not only reflects the texture correlation but also represents the color information. As a result, our proposed method is superior to the gray-level co-occurrence matrix method and color histogram method, and it enhances the retrieval accuracy which is measured in terms of the recall and precision in the meanwhile.     

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。     

Content-based image retrieval using joint correlograms

The comparison of digital images to determine their degree of similarity is one of the fundamental problems of computer vision. Many techniques exist which accomplish this with a certain level of success, most of which involve either the analysis of pixel-level features or the segmentation of images into sub-objects that can be geometrically compared. In this paper we develop and evaluate a new variation of the pixel feature and analysis technique known as the color correlogram in the context of a content-based image retrieval system. Our approach is to extend the autocorrelogram by adding multiple image features in addition to color. We compare the performance of each index scheme with our method for image retrieval on a large database of images. The experiment shows that our proposed method gives a significant improvement over histogram or color correlogram indexing, and it is also memory-efficient.