Feed-forward content based image retrieval using adaptive tetrolet transforms

This paper proposes a new approach for content based image retrieval based on feed-forward architecture and Tetrolet transforms. The proposed method addresses the problems of accuracy and retrieval time of the retrieval system. The proposed retrieval system works in two phases: feature extraction and retrieval. The feature extraction phase extracts the texture, edge and color features in a sequence. The texture features are extracted using Tetrolet transform. This transform provides better texture analysis by considering the local geometry of the image. Edge orientation histogram is used for retrieving the edge feature while color histogram is used for extracting the color features. Further retrieval phase retrieves the images in the feed-forward manner. At each stage, the number of images for next stage is reduced by filtering out irrelevant images. The Euclidean distance is used to measure the distance between the query and database images at each stage. The experimental results on COREL- 1 K and CIFAR - 10 benchmark databases show that the proposed system performs better in terms of the accuracy and retrieval time in comparison to the state-of-the-art methods.     

基于边缘网格的图像检索算法研究

为了准确高效地进行彩色图像检索，结合图像空间分布特性，提出了一种基于边缘刚格的图像检索新算法，不仅利用了彩色边缘的颜色统计信息，而且考虑了彩色边缘像素点的径向与角向分布特性。该算法首先利用Canny检测算子提取出原始图像的彩色边缘信息；然后将整个彩色边缘划分成局部刚格区域，并分别计算出每个网格区域的颜色直方图和纹理直方图；最后综合利用上述网格区域的颜色直方图和纹理直方图来计算图像间内容的相似度，用于进行彩色图像检索。仿真实验表明，该算法不仅能够准确和高效地查找出用户所需内容的彩色图像，并且具有较好的查准率和查全率。     

综合颜色和轮廓曲线特征的图像检索方法研究

传统的基于内容图像检索（CBIR）及跟踪算法主要利用图像的颜色、纹理等特征进行相似性比较,但大量的实验和应用也表明利用颜色和纹理进行图像相似性比较在空间结构和对象形状上难以精确控制,致使图像检索经常出现一些不可预料的结果。为了提高图像在形状、颜色及纹理上的检索精度,提出了一种综合颜色和图像轮廓曲线特征的检索方法。该方法分割图像并提取图像中感兴趣对象的轮廓,对提取的轮廓进行仿射变换及最小值化处理,经处理后的轮廓带有边缘的完整信息,具有几何不变性;利用聚类的颜色信息,提取主聚类的直方图,所提取的直方图不仅包含了主聚类的颜色信息也包含了该聚类的空间位置信息。利用检索对象与被检索对象的颜色距离直方图及轮廓曲线距离偏差的加权平均度量检索及被检索对象的相似性。实验结果表明,针对基于感兴趣对象的图像检索问题,给出了一种具有高度检索精度的算法。     

一类基于局部信息的特征描述子的图像检索

基于内容的图像检索准确性大大依赖于低层可视特征的描述。本文提出一类创新的彩色图像空间描述子、纹理描述子、边缘描述子和颜色描述子,空间描述子由局部均值直方图表示,纹理描述子由局部方向差单元直方图表示,边缘描述子由局部极大一极小差直方图表示,颜色描述子由量化HSV模型颜色直方图表示。这四种描述子被用作特征索引,它们对彩色图像,尤其是对具有相对规则的结构或纹理特征的图像具有很强的描述力。实验结果表明,用这种特征索引来检索图像,可以得到比其它基于颜色一空间方法高得多的精确度。     

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.     

Comparing images using joint histograms

Color histograms are widely used for content-based image retrieval due to their efficiency and robustness. However, a color histogram only records an image's overall color composition, so images with very different appearances can have similar color histograms. This problem is especially critical in large image databases, where many images have similar color histograms. In this paper, we propose an alternative to color histograms called a joint histogram, which incorporates additional information without sacrificing the robustness of color histograms. We create a joint histogram by selecting a set of local pixel features and constructing a multidimensional histogram. Each entry in a joint histogram contains the number of pixels in the image that are described by a particular combination of feature values. We describe a number of different joint histograms, and evaluate their performance for image retrieval on a database with over 210,000 images. On our benchmarks, joint histograms outperform color histograms by an order of magnitude.     

一种鲁棒的多特征彩色图像检索新方法

为了提高彩色图像检索的准确性,以回归型支持向量机(SVR)理论为基础,结合重要的图像边缘信息,提出了一种鲁棒的多特征彩色图像检索新方法。该方法首先利用回归型支持向量机(SVR)理论,对原始图像进行去噪处理及彩色边缘提取;然后将整个彩色边缘划分成局部网格区域,并分别计算出每个网格区域的颜色直方图和纹理直方图;最后综合利用上述网格区域的颜色直方图和纹理直方图来计算图像间内容的相似度,并进行彩色图像检索。实验结果表明,该方法不仅能够准确、快速的检索出用户所需图像,而且对光照、锐化、模糊等噪声攻击均具有较好的鲁棒性。     

一种用于图象检索的综合模糊直方图方法

随着多媒体技术的迅速发展,如今虽然在高带宽计算机网络上已能共享传播图象数据,但这也使得信息交换中的可视数据量急剧增加,同时给研究者们提出了有效检索图象的难题,为了能够快速准确地检索图象,提出了一种用综合模糊直方图进行图象检索的方法,该方法综合使用了颜色和纹理特征,首先将图象分块处理,得到了图象在HSI空间的颜色模糊直方图,然后用纹理特征对颜色模糊直方图进行扩展,从而得到综合模糊直方图,同时还给出了抽取图象颜色和纹理特征的方法和建立图象综合模糊方图的计算过程,并用上述方法对一个200幅彩色图象的图象库进行检索,实验结果表明,使用综合模糊直方图能有效地提高图象检索的准确度。     

基于小波多尺度分析的彩色图像检索方法

多媒体技术的普及和Internet技术的实施导致了大量图像信息的出现，基于文本关键词的传统检索方法已不能适应图像信息检索的要求，这使得基于内容的图像检索技术逐渐成为目前的研究热点。基于内容检索技术中必不可少的关键步骤就是图像特征的提取，其中可提取的特征有颜色、纹理和形状等。但是，由于图像的每种特征只能抓住图像相似性的某一个方面，因此如何能更好地表示图像就成为基于内容图像检索中一个重要的研究方向。针对该问题，提出了一种基于图像颜色和纹理特征的图像检索方法，其中颜色特征采用HSV颜色空间的直方图，纹理特征采用图像小波多尺度表示方法中细节信息的方差统计量，这样就充分利用了颜色的丰富表现性和小波变换的多分辨性及其变换系数的统计特性。通过对不同类型图像使用不同特征组合进行图像检索查准率的对比实验结果表明，这种图像检索方法是行之有效的。     

基于二值信息的颜色和形状特征的图像检索

由于单一特征不足以准确地描述图像,提出了一种结合颜色、形状特征的图像检索方法.提出了新的用二值信息来表示图像的主色、全局色和形状特征的方法,并由此特征构造两个过滤器快速地过滤图像库中明显不相同的图像,以提高检索速度;采用改进的颜色直方图和形状基本特征进行相似度计算,为进一步提高图像检索的质量引入相关反馈机制,提出了一种动态调整两幅图像相似度中颜色特征和形状特征的权值系数的方法.文中方法与其它方法进行了比较实验,结果表明,该方法优于其它方法.     

Expert system design using wavelet and color vocabulary trees for image retrieval

A new image indexing and retrieval system for content based image retrieval (CBIR) is proposed in this paper. The characteristics (vector points) of image are computed using color (color histogram) and SOT (spatial orientation tree). The SOT defines the spatial parent-child relationship among wavelet coefficients in multi-resolution wavelet sub-bands. First the image is divided into sub-blocks and then constructed the SOT for each low pass wavelet coefficient is considered as a vector point of that particular image. Similarly the color histogram features are collected from the each sub-block. The vector points of each image are indexed using vocabulary tree. The retrieval results of the proposed method are tested on different image databases, i.e., natural image database consists of Corel 1000 (DB1), Brodatz texture image database (DB2) and MIT VisTex database (DB3). The results after being investigated show a significant improvement in terms of average precision, average recall and average retrieval rate on DB1 database and average retrieval rate on texture databases (DB2 and DB3) as compared with most of existing techniques on respective databases.     

An Efficient Deep Learning-based Content-based Image Retrieval Framework

The use of massive image databases has increased drastically over the few years due to evolution of multimedia technology. Image retrieval has become one of the vital tools in image processing applications. Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) has been widely used in varied applications. But, the results produced by the usage of a single image feature are not satisfactory. So, multiple image features are used very often for attaining better results. But, fast and effective searching for relevant images from a database becomes a challenging task. In the previous existing system, the CBIR has used the combined feature extraction technique using color auto-correlogram, Rotation-Invariant Uniform Local Binary Patterns (RULBP) and local energy. However, the existing system does not provide significant results in terms of recall and precision. Also, the computational complexity is higher for the existing CBIR systems. In order to handle the above mentioned issues, the Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) with Deep Learning based Enhanced Convolution Neural Network (DLECNN) is proposed in this work. The proposed system framework includes noise reduction using histogram equalization, feature extraction using GLCM, similarity matching computation using Hierarchal and Fuzzy c- Means (HFCM) algorithm and the image retrieval using DLECNN algorithm. The histogram equalization has been used for computing the image enhancement. This enhanced image has a uniform histogram. Then, the GLCM method has been used to extract the features such as shape, texture, colour, annotations and keywords. The HFCM similarity measure is used for computing the query image vector's similarity index with every database images. For enhancing the performance of this image retrieval approach, the DLECNN algorithm is proposed to retrieve more accurate features of the image. The proposed GLCM+DLECNN algorithm provides better results associated with high accuracy, precision, recall, f-measure and lesser complexity. From the experimental results, it is clearly observed that the proposed system provides efficient image retrieval for the given query image.     

一种基于位平面综合特征的彩色图像检索方案

传统的基于颜色直方图的彩色图像检索方法存在严重不足.首先是丢失颜色空间分布信息及特征维数过高,更重要的是无法有效检索含噪声图像.为克服此缺陷,提出了一种基于位平面综合特征的彩色图像检索算法.首先,结合光照、锐化、模糊等噪声攻击特点,从原始彩色图像中提取出重要位平面;然后选取重要位平面的加权颜色直方图作为颜色特征,选取重要位平面的空间信息熵作为空间特征;再综合利用上述颜色、空间两个特征计算图像间内容的相似度,并进行彩色图像检索.仿真实验表明,算法能够准确和高效地查找出用户所需内容的彩色图像,并且具有较好的查准率和查全率(特别对于含噪声图像).     

基于颜色特征的图像检索方法研究

基于颜色的图像检索因对图像的各种变化有很好的鲁棒性而得到了广泛的应用,但是由于缺乏空间信息而 造成检索误差。针对全局颜色直方图和分块颜色直方图的检索问题,提出了一种利用等面积的矩形环来提取颜色特 征的图像检索方法。该方法首先利用等面积的矩形环划分策略对图像进行分块;其次,提取子块的颜色累加直方图作 为颜色特征;然后,为了突出图像的主体区域,按照矩形环由里到外依次减小规则确定权值,并对两幅图像子块颜色特 征之间的距离进行加权累加得到两幅图像的相似度量,以此进行检索,并输出相应的查询结果;最后通过实验结果表 明:该方法与全局直方图、累加直方图及传统分块直方图相比,具有更高的检索效果。     

序列化颜色直方图的分析与应用

在许多基于颜色的图像检索系统中,图像的颜色属性通过颜色直方图来描述。基于颜色直方图的搜索,对规模较大的颜色直方图往往很低效。因此论文将介绍一种新方法,这种方法能有效的表示颜色直方图和两个颜色直方图的区别。这种方法是基于以下的观察:最大的20%的颜色直方图能占到图像的90%的像素;当颜色直方图用一个阀值过滤后,主成分颜色数量MCCC(maincomponentcolorusedcount)代表这幅图像的复杂性,在第一阶段的检索中被用来快速索引,主成分颜色序列MCCS(maincomponentcolorsequence)能够用来在检索的第二阶段比较图像的颜色信息。使用该方法,总的颜色索引信息将比传统的颜色直方图节省存储空间。试验结果基于包含1000张图像的图像数据库。