基于LBP值对空间统计特征的纹理描述符

针对基于内容图像检索应用背景下局部二值模式(LBP)描述符缺乏空间描述能力及所需特征矢量维数较长的不足, 提出一种基于LBP值对空间统计特征构建的改进纹理描述符(ILBP)。ILBP描述符首先利用LBP微模式编码方法将原始图像转换为LBP伪灰度图像, 然后再提取出多个关于LBP值对空间分布关系统计值构成描述图像特征的特征矢量。在基于内容的图像检索原型测试平台上完成大量实验。实验结果表明, 与LBP及其各类变种描述符相比, ILBP描述符在进一步增强LBP描述符描述能力的同时大幅度压缩特征矢量维数, 具有更好的查询正确率和查询效率。     

一种有效的支持海量图像数据库QBE查询的聚类索引算法

对海量图像数据进行基于内容的查询与检索有赖于高效的索引和检索机制。因此,如何将海量图像数据进行合理的分类,人而建立相应的索引机制就成为了一个亟待解决的问题。本文提出了一种有效的支持海量图像数据库QBE查询的聚类索引算法。实验在1万多幅的图像数据库上进行了反复测试,结果表明该算法可以极大地提高检索效率。     

MPEG-7纹理描述子的图像检索

利用MPEG-7中所制订的统一格式,来提取纹理图像的特征,其中使用了同构型纹理图像描述子、纹理图像浏览描述子和边界直方图描述子三种特征描述来检索图像。同构型纹理图像描述子是使用Gabor滤波器来加强特定纹理方向和纹理大小的信号,并计算在各个频道的能量强度。纹理图像浏览描述子也是利用Gabor滤波器来提取纹理的方向性,并利用找出的方向性经过投影和自相关函数来找出纹理大小,并判断规则度。而边界直方图描述子则是找出在图像区块中的边界型态,统计成直方图来作为特征。文中使用了上述三种描述子,实验结果显示可以检索出最相似的纹理图像,但是每种描述子仍有它使用的限制和缺点。同构型纹理图像描述子适合使用在同构型较高的纹理图像上;纹理图像浏览描述子对于非30倍数的角度较不敏感,容易出现误差;边界直方图描述子只适用于有明显边界分布出现的图像。     

构建近邻上下文的拷贝图像检索

目的 以词袋模型为基础的拷贝图像检索方法是当前最有效的方法。然而,由于局部特征量化存在信息损失,导致视觉词汇区别能力不足和视觉词汇误匹配增加,从而影响了拷贝图像检索效果。针对视觉词汇的误匹配问题,提出一种基于近邻上下文的拷贝图像检索方法。该方法通过局部特征的上下文关系消除视觉词汇歧义,提高视觉词汇的区分度,进而提高拷贝图像的检索效果。方法 首先,以距离和尺度关系选择图像中某局部特征点周围的特征点作为该特征点的上下文,选取的上下文中的局部特征点称为近邻特征点;再以近邻特征点的信息以及与该局部特征的关系为该局部特征构建上下文描述子;然后,通过计算上下文描述子的相似性对局部特征匹配对进行验证;最后,以正确匹配特征点的个数衡量图像间的相似性,并以此相似性选取若干候选图像作为返回结果。结果 在Copydays图像库进行实验,与Baseline方法进行比较。在干扰图像规模为100 k时,相对于Baseline方法,mAP提高了63%。当干扰图像规模从100 k增加到1 M时,Baseline的mAP值下降9%,而本文方法下降3%。结论 本文拷贝图像检索方法对图像编辑操作,如旋转、图像叠加、尺度变换以及裁剪有较高的鲁棒性。该方法可以有效地应用到图像防伪、图像去重等领域。     

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.     

Colour Image Indexing Using SOM for Region-of-Interest Retrieval

In this paper, we present a novel approach to image indexing by incorporating a neural network model, Kohonen’s Self-Organising Map (SOM), for content-based image retrieval. The motivation stems from the idea of finding images by regarding users’ specifications or requirements imposed on the query, which has been ignored in most existing image retrieval systems. An important and unique aspect of our interactive scheme is to allow the user to select a Region-Of-Interest (ROI) from the sample image, and subsequent query concentrates on matching the regional colour features to find images containing similar regions as indicated by the user. The SOM algorithm is capable of adaptively partitioning each image into several homogeneous regions for representing and indexing the image. This is achieved by unsupervised clustering and classification of pixel-level features, called Local Neighbourhood Histograms (LNH), without a priori knowledge about the data distribution in the feature space. The indexes generated from the resultant prototypes of SOM learning demonstrate fairly good performance over an experimental image database, and therefore suggest the effectiveness and significant potential of our proposed indexing and retrieval strategy for application to content-based image retrieval. Receiveed: 4 June 1998?,Received in revised form: 7 January 1999?Accepted: 7 January 1999     

局部图像描述符最新研究进展

目的 局部图像描述符广泛应用于许多图像理解和计算机视觉应用领域,如图像分类、目标识别、图像检索、机器人导航、纹理分类等。SIFT算法的提出标志着现代局部图像描述符研究的开始。主要对最近发展的现代局部图像描述符进行了综述。方法 首先,介绍了4大类局部图像描述符:局部特征空间分布描述符、局部特征空间关联描述符、基于机器学习的局部描述符、扩展局部描述符(局部颜色描述符、局部RGB-D描述符、局部空时描述符)。对局部图像描述符进行了分析和分类,并总结了局部图像描述符的不变性、计算复杂度、应用领域、评价方法和评价数据集。最后,展望了局部图像描述符的未来研究方向。结果 近年来局部图像描述符研究取得了很大进展,提出了很多优秀的描述符,在辨别性、鲁棒性和实时性方面有了很大提高,应用领域不断拓展。结论 局部图像描述符应用广泛,是计算机视觉领域的重要基础研究。而目前,局部图像描述符还存在许多问题,还需进一步的深入研究。     

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 indexing for efficient image retrieval

Content based image retrieval is an active area of research. Many approaches have been proposed to retrieve images based on matching of some features derived from the image content. Color is an important feature of image content. The problem with many traditional matching-based retrieval methods is that the search time for retrieving similar images for a given query image increases linearly with the size of the image database. We present an efficient color indexing scheme for similarity-based retrieval which has a search time that increases logarithmically with the database size.In our approach, the color features are extracted automatically using a color clustering algorithm. Then the cluster centroids are used as representatives of the images in 3-dimensional color space and are indexed using a spatial indexing method that usesR-tree. The worst case search time complexity of this approach isOn _q log(N^* n_avg)), whereN is the number of images in the database, andn _q andn _avg are the number of colors in the query image and the average number of colors per image in the database respectively. We present the experimental results for the proposed approach on two databases consisting of 337 Trademark images and 200 Flag images.     

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.     

Image database indexing using JPEG coefficients

Image database indexing is used for efficient retrieval of images in response to a query expressed as an example image. The query image is processed to extract information that is matched against the index to provide pointers to similar images. We present a technique that facilitates content similarity-based retrieval of jpeg-compressed images without first having to uncompress them. The technique is based on an index developed from a subset of jpeg coefficients and a similarity measure to determine the difference between the query image and the images in the database. This method offers substantial efficiency as images are processed in compressed format, information that was derived during the original compression of the images is reused, and extensive early pruning is possible. Initial experiments with the index have provided encouraging results. The system outputs a set of ranked images in the database with respect to the query using the similarity measure, and can be limited to output a specified number of matched images by changing the threshold match.