基于颜色空间分布特征的图像检索

目前,基于颜色特征的图像检索大多是以图像的颜色直方图作为颜色特征,这种图像检索方法有简单高效的优点,但丢失了颜色的空间分布信息,该文从CT图像重建的理论中得到启发,将对一幅图像从几个方向的投影图作为这幅图像的颜色特征分布。为进一步减少检索时运算的数据量,对图像做小波分解,然后对分解后图像的低频子带做Radon变换得到颜色空间分布的特征向量,并根据这个特征进行检索,实验表明,当检索图像中有明显的颜色目标时,该方法比传统的颜色直方图法更精确,颜色空间性更强,而且检索用时更短。     

Image retrieval based on shape similarity by edge orientation autocorrelogram

This paper introduces a new feature vector for shape-based image indexing and retrieval. This feature classifies image edges based on two factors: their orientations and correlation between neighboring edges. Hence it includes information of continuous edges and lines of images and describes major shape properties of images. This scheme is effective and robustly tolerates translation, scaling, color, illumination, and viewing position variations. Experimental results show superiority of proposed scheme over several other indexing methods. Averages of precision and recall rates of this new indexing scheme for retrieval as compared with traditional color histogram are 1.99 and 1.59 times, respectively. These ratios are 1.26 and 1.04 compared to edge direction histogram.     

通过抽取的特征进行图象检索的算法测试平台

基于内容的图象检索近年来得到了广泛的研究,人们已提出了许多基于特征的图象检索算法,但如何管理,比较、评价、组合应用这些检索算法已成为继续深入研究必须要解决的一个问题,为了解决此问题,建立了一个通过抽取的特征进行图象检索的算法实验平台,该平台既具有管理功能（包括管理各种算法、图象库和图片）,又集成各种算法,以综合实现不同的检索功能（包括递进检索和综合检索）,实验结果表明,借助平台对算法和图象进行集中管理,既可以方便地对各种基于特征的图象检索算法进行比较和评价,又有助于方便地形研究新的算法。     

Scalable color image indexing and retrieval using vector wavelets

This paper presents a scalable content-based image indexing and retrieval system based on vector wavelet coefficients of color images. Highly decorrelated wavelet coefficient planes are used to acquire a search efficient feature space. The feature space is subsequently indexed using properties of all the images in the database. Therefore, the feature key of an image not only corresponds to the content of the image itself but also to how much the image is different from the other images being stored in the database. The search time linearly depends on the number of images similar to the query image and is independent of the database size. We show that, in a database of 5,000 images, query search takes less than 30 msec on a 266 MHz Pentium II processor, compared to several seconds of retrieval time in the earlier systems proposed in the literature     

Wavelet correlogram: A new approach for image indexing and retrieval

In this paper, a new algorithm for content-based image indexing and retrieval is presented. The proposed method is based on a combination of multiresolution image decomposition and color correlation histogram. According to the new algorithm, wavelet coefficients of the image are computed first using a directional wavelet transform such as Gabor wavelets. A quantization step is then applied before computing one-directional autocorrelograms of the wavelet coefficients. Finally, index vectors are constructed using these one-directional wavelet correlograms. The retrieval results obtained by application of our new method on a 1000 image database demonstrated a significant improvement in effectiveness and efficiency compared to the indexing and retrieval methods based on image color correlogram or wavelet transform.     

基于迭代分形的图象压缩和检索方法

图象所具有的海量性和无序性的特点，决定了多媒体应用的构建必须解决图象数据的高效压缩和有效检索两个关键问题，而由于传统的压缩和检索技术的研究是相互分离的，因而限制了多媒体应用系统整体性能的提高，针对此问题，从两者相互结合的观点，对图象压缩和检索方法进行了研究，首先在小波变换域内，基于迭代分形对图象数据进行压缩，然后在图象分形码的基础上，利用迭代函数系统分布特性构建的特征量来支持图象检索，实验结果验证了该方法的可行性和有效性，同时也表明了基于迭代分形的图象检索方法所具有的巨大应用潜力。     

Fast K-means algorithm based on a level histogram for image retrieval

In image retrieval, the image feature is the main factor determining accuracy; the color feature is the most important feature and is most commonly used with a K-means algorithm. To create a fast K-means algorithm for this study, first a level histogram of statistics for the image database is made. The level histogram is used with the K-means algorithm for clustering data. A fast K-means algorithm not only shortens the length of time spent on training the image database cluster centers, but it also overcomes the cluster center re-training problem since large numbers of images are continuously added into the database. For the experiment, we use gray and color image database sets for performance comparisons and analyzes, respectively. The results show that the fast K-means algorithm is more effective, faster, and more convenient than the traditional K-means algorithm. Moreover, it overcomes the problem of spending excessive amounts of time on re-training caused by the continuous addition of images to the image database. Selection of initial cluster centers also affects the performance of cluster center training.     

Enhanced Gabor wavelet correlogram feature for image indexing and retrieval

In this paper, a new feature scheme called enhanced Gabor wavelet correlogram (EGWC) is proposed for image indexing and retrieval. EGWC uses Gabor wavelets to decompose the image into different scales and orientations. The Gabor wavelet coefficients are then quantized using optimized quantization thresholds. In the next step, the autocorrelogram of the quantized wavelet coefficients is computed in each wavelet scale and orientation. Finally, the EGWC index vector simply consists of the autocorrelogram coefficients. Due to non-orthogonality of Gabor decomposition, the resulting wavelet coefficients suffer from redundancy, which increases the computational cost and reduces the effectiveness of EGWC. Here, we present a solution to handle the redundancy problem using non-maximum suppression and adjustment of autocorrelogram distance parameters as a function of the wavelet scale. The retrieval results obtained by applying EGWC to index two image databases with 5,000 natural images and 1,792 texture images demonstrated its better performance in terms of retrieval rates with respect to the state-of-the-art content-based and multidirectional texture indexing algorithms.     

基于聚类的图像视觉内容检索和索引

图像是一种典型的可以大量获取的多媒体数据，对它们进行内容管理具有实际意义，描述在BOIC系统中提出并实现的基于聚类机制的图像视觉内容检索和索引方法．首先给出以视觉特征、空间结构、语义注释等来表示图像内容的模型；然后给出基于该模型的三个检索算法，包括基于视觉感知的颜色检索算法、轮廓检索算法、主色调扩展检索算法；最后给出采用集簇算法时媒体数据进行聚类的索引机制．它建立聚类索引表来缩小查询范围，从而提高了检索效率。     

Web-based image indexing and retrieval in JPEG compressed domain

As the majority of content-based image retrieval systems operate on full images in pixel domain, decompression is a prerequisite for the retrieval of compressed images. To provide a possible on-line indexing and retrieval technique for those jpg image files, we propose a novel pseudo-pixel extraction algorithm to bridge the gap between the existing image indexing technology, developed in the pixel domain, and the fact that an increasing number of images stored on the Web are already compressed by JPEG at the source. Further, we describe our Web-based image retrieval system, WEBimager, by using the proposed algorithm to provide a prototype visual information system toward automatic management, indexing, and retrieval of compressed images available on the Internet. This provides users with efficient tools to search the Web for compressed images and establish a database or a collection of special images to their interests. Experiments using texture- and colour-based indexing techniques support the idea that the proposed algorithm achieves significantly better results in terms of computing cost than their full decompression or partial decompression counterparts. This technology will help control the explosion of media-rich content by offering users a powerful automated image indexing and retrieval tool for compressed images on the Web.J. Jiang: Contacting author     

Efficient Content-Based Image Retrieval through Metric Histograms

This paper presents a new and efficient method for content-based image retrieval employing the color distribution of images. This new method, called metric histogram, takes advantage of the correlation among adjacent bins of histograms, reducing the dimensionality of the feature vectors extracted from images, leading to faster and more flexible indexing and retrieval processes. The proposed technique works on each image independently from the others in the dataset, therefore there is no pre-defined number of color regions in the resulting histogram. Thus, it is not possible to use traditional comparison algorithms such as Euclidean or Manhattan distances. To allow the comparison of images through the new feature vectors given by metric histograms, a new metric distance function MHD( ) is also proposed. This paper shows the improvements in timing and retrieval discrimination obtained using metric histograms over traditional ones, even when using images with different spatial resolution or thumbnails. The experimental evaluation of the new method, for answering similarity queries over two representative image databases, shows that the metric histograms surpass the retrieval ability of traditional histograms because they are invariant on geometrical and brightness image transformations, and answer the queries up to 10 times faster than the traditional ones.     

基于小波突出点颜色及空间分布的图像检索算法

分析了基于兴趣点的图像检索方法的缺点,提出了一种基于小波突出点的图像检索新方法。该方法在小波域提取突出点,这些突出点既表示了全局变化也表示了局部变化;然后以小波突出点为线索,设计了基于小波突出点的环形颜色直方图,既利用了小波突出点的局部特征,又考虑了小波突出点的空间分布结构;用图像间的环形颜色直方图距离来度量图像间的相似性。该检索算法不但保证了对图像旋转、平移鲁棒性,而且克服了传统直方图没有空间位置的缺陷。实验结果表明,该方法对图像检索是有效的。     

一种基于颜色自动相关图与小波变换的图像检索算法研究

随着图像数据量的不断丰富和人们需求的不断提高,基于内容的图像检索技术成为一个重要的研究课题。本文研究了基于颜色相关图与小波变换的图像检索算法,利用颜色相关图与小波变换,把图像分块分别提取图像的颜色特征与纹理特征,实现了图像的检索。实验结果说明了算法的有效性。     

基于小波分析和Oracle8i的图像数据库系统设计

采用了小波分析以及小波零树编码技术来提取图像特征,在Oracle8i支持图像数据库查询的基础上,综合使用传统的数据库检索技术和初步走向应用的基于内容的查询技术,实验证明这种方法丰富了传统的关系型数据库的功能,并具有良好的检索性能。     

基于颜色信息熵和多尺度纹理特征的图像检索

颜色特征采用分块的HSV颜色空间的信息熵,纹理特征采用小波多尺度高频子带方差特征,结合遗传算法的图像检索方法。采用组合特征进行图像检索,改善了颜色特征缺乏空间信息的缺点,利用遗传算法能够自适应地搜索最优解,减少了在相关反馈的检索过程中,用户的选择操作。通过比较实验,具有很好的检索性能。     

Query by image and video content: a colored-based stochastic model approach

For efficient image retrieval, the image database should be processed to extract a representing feature vector for each member image in the database. A reliable and robust statistical image indexing technique based on a stochastic model of an image color content has been developed. Based on the developed stochastic model, a compact 12-dimensional feature vector was defined to tag images in the database system. The entries of the defined feature vector are the mean, variance, and skewness of the image color histogram distributions as well as correlation factors between color components of the RGB color space. It was shown using statistical analysis that the feature vector provides sufficient knowledge about the histogram distribution. The reliability and robustness of the proposed technique against common intensity artifacts and noise was validated through several experiments conducted for that purpose. The proposed technique outperforms traditional and other histogram based techniques in terms of feature vector size and properties, as well as performance.     

基于分块主色法的图像无序激增数据检索仿真

针对传统图像信息检索方法存在检索效果不佳的问题,提出基于分块主色法的图像无序激增数据检索方法.方法首先按照图像内容将图像进行分块处理,并对每个分块进行HSV非均匀量化,得到图像的颜色特征;然后根据图像小块的颜色特征分布情况,对小块的颜色特征进行加权值计算;最终以小块加权的颜色值为目标特征,进行相似度估计,并计算图像之间...     

基于改进双树复小波和灰度-梯度共生矩阵的纹理图像检索算法

针对双树复小波变换缺少不同尺度纹理的空间分布特征的缺陷,提出了一种改进双树复小波和灰度-梯度共生矩阵相融合的纹理图像检索新算法。首先,该算法将图像进行非均匀分块,并对分块的图像进行双树复小波变换,以此增加不同尺度下的空间信息;其次,利用灰度-梯度共生矩阵提取4个统计量特征;然后, 融合 两种方法提取的纹理特征以得到图像检索的纹理特征;最后,用Canberra距离进行相似性度量并输出图像检索的结果。实验结果表明,该方法对纹理图像有较好的检索效果。