基于兴趣点局部分布特征的图像检索方法

提出了一种基于兴趣点颜色和空间分布特征的图像检索方法。该方法把图像内容看作为由若干兴趣点组成的集合,首先利用小波系数的空间方向树特性来检测兴趣点,然后利用基于兴趣点的环形颜色直方图和空间离散度来描述图像的特征,最后用加权特征距离来估计图像内容的相似度。同时,通过利用环形颜色直方图和空间离散度作为图像特征保证了该算法能够对图像的尺度变化、旋转变化和平移变化具有很好的抑制能力。在含有1000幅图像的数据库上所做的一系列实验表明,该算法与其它基于兴趣点的方法相比,能够更准确和高效地查找出用户所需的图像,明显地提高了检索精度。     

基于兴趣点颜色形状特征的图像检索方法

提出了一种基于兴趣点的图像检索新方法ACSM（Annular Color and Shape Moment）．利用兴趣点的位置信息，提取兴趣点周围局部区域的颜色矩特征和区域形状不变矩特征。ACSM算法不仅对平穆、旋转具有良好的鲁棒性，而且克服了传统颜色矩和形状不变矩没有位置信忠的缺陷。实验结果表明，由于将颜色和形状特征有机结合，ACSM算法有效提高了图像检索的准确性。     

基于感兴趣区域多特征加权融合的图像检索算法

基于内容的图像检索有着广阔的应用前景,但存在检索性能不高的缺点.综合兴趣点和多特征融合的优点,提出一种基于感兴趣区域多特征加权融合的图像检索算法.采用Harris算法提取图像的兴趣点,确定感兴趣区域;再采用累积灰度直方图、共生矩阵和形状不变矩分别提取感兴趣区域的颜色、纹理和形状特征;经归一化后,最后采用距离函数级融合来度量图像的相似度,以检索图像.实验表明,算法有效地提高了图像的检索性能.     

A method of face recognition using 3D facial surfaces

Face recognition is one of the most rapidly developing areas of image processing and computer vision. In this work, a new method for face recognition and identification using 3D facial surfaces is proposed. The method is invariant to facial expression and pose variations in the scene. The method uses 3D shape data without color or texture information. The method is based on conformal mapping of original facial surfaces onto a Riemannian manifold, followed by comparison of conformal and isometric invariants computed in this manifold. Computer results are presented using known 3D face databases that contain significant amount of expression and pose variations.     

基于融合特征的现勘图像检索结果优化算法

刑侦现勘图像数据库是具有保密性高、图像内容罕见等极具行业特色的图像数据库.针对现勘图像内容复杂、目标物体不明确的特点,提出了DCT-DCT波纹理特征,并与HSV颜色直方图特征、GIST特征相融合构成融合特征.与常用的图像特征相比,DCT-DCT波纹理特征能够得到较高的检索效率,而融合特征的平均检索查准率高于构成其本身的三种特征的平均检索查准率.最后,将语义分析技术引入到检索过程中,提出基于检索结果优化的现勘图像检索算法,利用支持向量机（Support Vector Machine,SVM）分类器对查询图像进行语义提取,并对初次检索的结果进行语义分析,根据初检结果中语义类别的占比选择二次检索方案,该算法能在按例查询的基础上进一步提高平均检索查准率.     

Zernike moments and LDP-weighted patches for content-based image retrieval

This paper proposes a new algorithm using global and local features for content-based image retrieval. Global features are extracted using the magnitude of Zernike moments (ZMs). Local features are obtained through local directional pattern (LDP). Generally, LDP is used to extract texture-based features from an image. In this paper, LDP is used to encode both texture and shape information of an image to represent more meaningful features. To encode texture-based features, original image is used to compute the LDP features. To extract shape information from an image, dual-tree complex wavelet transform (DT-CWT) is applied on image which generates six directional wavelets. These six directional wavelets are superimposed in order to obtain shape-encoded image. LDP is then applied on this wavelet-based shape-encoded image. Further, to enhance retrieval accuracy, LDP features are extracted from patches of both original and shape-encoded images. These patches are assigned with weights based on average discrimination capability of features in a patch. Experiments are performed using three different standard databases with various variations such as pose, distortion, partial occlusion and complex structure. The proposed technique achieves 96.4 and 98.76 % retrieval accuracy at a recall of 50 %, for Kimia-99 and COIL-100 databases, respectively. For MPEG-7 CE-2 shape database, retrieval accuracy of 61.93 % is achieved in terms of average Bull’s eye performance (BEP). The proposed technique is also tested on Springer medical image database to explore its scope in other areas, wherein it attains average BEP of 69.68 % in comparison with 61.52 % with ZMs. It is observed that the proposed technique outperforms other well-known existing methods of image retrieval.     

基于形状特征的图像搜索研究

基于内容的图像搜索可以分为特征提取,对象表示和对象匹配.在特征提取中有色彩,纹理,形状和空间关系等特征,而形状特征能给人们带来非常直观的信息.在形状特征的边缘提取中采用Prompt edge detection方法来获取图像边界,并与Sobel 算子边缘提取法进行比较.在对象表示中采用边缘点的爬山序列,爬山序列能在对象移动,旋转和缩放后保持一致性,是一种较好的对象特征表示方法.     

基于多特征的服装图像检索

基于内容的图像检索一直是一个受关注的研究热点,这里利用图像的颜色和形状特征,将基于内容的图像检索应用于电子购物领域。提出先利用不变距与傅里叶描述子相结合的方法对图像形状特征进行检索,再利用改进的颜色直方图进行二次检索的检索方法。在检索前引入图像背景消除法消除图像中背景信息的影响。最后通过实验验证了基于颜色和形状特征的服装图像检索效果以及利用图像背景去除对检索效果的影响。     

融合颜色与形状特征的图像检索方法

基于颜色或颜色-空间信息的图像检索方法，由于没有考虑图像中所含目标对象的形状特征，检索效果往往不够理想，针对这一不足。文章提出并设计了颜色-梯度方向角二维直方图，将图像的颜色特征与形状特征融合起来进行图像检索。试验结果表明，该方法的检索精度与效率都有明显的提高。     

Robust photometric invariant features from the color tensor.

Luminance-based features are widely used as low-level input for computer vision applications, even when color data is available. The extension of feature detection to the color domain prevents information loss due to isoluminance and allows us to exploit the photometric information. To fully exploit the extra information in the color data, the vector nature of color data has to be taken into account and a sound framework is needed to combine feature and photometric invariance theory. In this paper, we focus on the structure tensor, or color tensor, which adequately handles the vector nature of color images. Further, we combine the features based on the color tensor with photometric invariant derivatives to arrive at photometric invariant features. We circumvent the drawback of unstable photometric invariants by deriving an uncertainty measure to accompany the photometric invariant derivatives. The uncertainty is incorporated in the color tensor, hereby allowing the computation of robust photometric invariant features. The combination of the photometric invariance theory and tensor-based features allows for detection of a variety of features such as photometric invariant edges, corners, optical flow, and curvature. The proposed features are tested for noise characteristics and robustness to photometric changes. Experiments show that the proposed features are robust to scene incidental events and that the proposed uncertainty measure improves the applicability of full invariants.     

A Novel Web Image Retrieval Method

Traditional image retrieval methods, make use of color, shape and texture features, are based on local image database. But in the condition of which much more images are available on the internet, so big an image database includes various types of image information. In this paper, we introduce an intellectualized image retrieval method based on internet, which can grasp images on Internet automatically using web crawler and build the feature vector in local host. The method involves three parts: the capture-node, the manage-node, and the calculate-node. The calculate-node has two functions: feature extract and similarity measurement. According to the results of our experiments, we found the proposed method is simple to realization and has higher processing speed and accuracy.     

综合颜色和形状特征的图像检索

提出了一种组合颜色和形状特征的图像检索方法，将彩色图像转变成灰度图象，计算查询图像和数据库图像的直方图距离，通过图像分割提取图像的形状特征，利用两特征的加权距离计算图像之间的相似度，而后进行图像检索。通过实验表明该组合方法优于单纯特征的图像检索。     

Indexing and retrieval of images by spatial constraints

Many multimedia applications require retrieval of spatially similar images against a given query image. Existing work on image retrieval and indexing either requires extensive low-level computations or elaborate human interaction. In this paper, we introduce a new symbolic image representation technique to eliminate repetitive tasks of image understanding and object processing. Our symbolic image representation scheme is based on the concept of hierarchical decomposition of image space into spatial arrangements of features while preserving the spatial relationships among the image objects. Quadtrees are used to manage the decomposition hierarchy and play an important role in defining the similarity measure. This scheme is incremental in nature, can be adopted to accommodate varying levels of details in a wide range of application domains, and provides geometric variance independence. While ensuring that there are no false negatives, our approach also discriminates against non-matching entities by eliminating them as soon as possible, during the coarser matching phases. A hierarchical indexing scheme based on the concept of image signatures and efficient quadtree matching has been devised. Each level of the hierarchy tends to reduce the search space, allowing more involved comparisons only for potentially matching candidate database images. For a given query image, a facility is provided to rank-order the retrieved spatially similar images from the image database for subsequent browsing and selection by the user.