综合利用颜色和纹理特征的图像检索

基于特征的图像检索在多媒体数据库管理和多媒体通信传输中得到越来越多的重视。本文介绍了我们设计的分别基于颜色特征和基于纹理特征的两种图像检索算法。在利用单一特征检索的基础上,我们提出了一种综合利用上述两个特征共同进行检索的方法。对真实图像数据库的检索实验表明,综合特征检索要比单一特征检索更符合人的视觉感受要求,因而检索效果更好。     

基于感兴趣区域的图像检索方法

提出了一种新的基于感兴趣区域的图像检索算法。首先基于多曲率多项式提取图像显著点,并依据显著点提取图像感兴趣区域,然后基于感兴趣区域的颜色和纹理特征进行图像检索。实验结果表明该方法可有效地提取图像感兴趣区域,并取得了较好的检索效果。     

一种改进的综合BTC颜色矩和DT-CWT的图像检索算法

摘 要：特征提取是基于内容的图像检索中的关键技术。针对基于单一特征检索效果不理想的问题,提出一种改进的综合颜色和纹理特征的图像检索算法。该算法在YIQ颜色空间中进行特征提取,首先结合方块编码（BTC）的思想,提取颜色矩作为颜色特征;采用双树复小波变换（DT-CWT）提取纹理特征,融合两种特征并利用相似性度量方式进行图像检索。实验结果表明算法所提取的颜色、纹理特征更利于检索,使用综合特征检索的平均查准率比同类算法更高。     

Image retrieval using both color and texture features

In order to improve the retrieval performance of images, this paper proposes an efficient approach for extracting and retrieving color images. The block diagram of our proposed approach to content-based image retrieval (CBIR) is given firstly, and then we introduce three image feature extracting arithmetic including color histogram, edge histogram and edge direction histogram, the histogram Euclidean distance, cosine distance and histogram intersection are used to measure the image level similarity. On the basis of using color and texture features separately, a new method for image retrieval using combined features is proposed. With the test for an image database including 766 general-purpose images and comparison and analysis of performance evaluation for features and similarity measures, our proposed retrieval approach demonstrates a promising performance. Experiment shows that combined features are superior to every single one of the three features in retrieval.     

Content-based image retrieval using a fusion of global and local features

Color, texture, and shape act as important information for images in human recognition. For content-based image retrieval, many studies have combined color, texture, and shape features to improve the retrieval performance. However, there have not been many powerful methods for combining all color, texture, and shape features. This study proposes a content-based image retrieval method that uses the combined local and global features of color, texture, and shape. The color features are extracted from the color autocorrelogram; the texture features are extracted from the magnitude of a complete local binary pattern and the Gabor local correlation revealing local image characteristics; and the shape features are extracted from singular value decomposition that reflects global image characteristics. In this work, an experiment is performed to compare the proposed method with those that use our partial features and some existing techniques. The results show an average precision that is 19.60% higher than those of existing methods and 9.09% higher than those of recent ones. In conclusion, our proposed method is superior over other methods in terms of retrieval performance.     

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。     

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.     

基于综合特征和SVM相关反馈的图像检索

提出综合纹理、颜色和形状特征的图像检索方法。首先采用Gabor小波计算ROIs(Regions of Interest)的位置和数目;然后在ROIs中,使用Gabor小波提取纹理特征,采用YUV空间直方图和颜色矩表示颜色特征,使用Zernike矩提取形状特征。为了提高图像检索的准确度,最后采用基于支持向量机(SVM)的相关反馈算法。实验结果表明,提出的方法具有较好的检索性能。     

基于颜色纹理特征的SVD图像检索方法

网络等媒体中包含的图片越来越丰富,从众多的图像中查找到自己感兴趣的内容是图像处理一个重要目标.图像的颜色和纹理能从视觉上表现图像特征,因此提出了图像颜色和纹理特征融合,并用奇异值分解方法降低特征向量维度的图像检索方法.首先,提取图像LTrP(Local Tetra Patterns)纹理特征向量和HSV颜色特征向量;对图像分块,用奇异值分解方法降低图像块特征向量维度和噪声,连接图像块向量得到图像的特征向量;用欧式距离对图像进行相似性检测.实验结果表明,该方法平均检索精度明显高于其他同类检索方法.     

Perceptual Image Indexing and Retrieval

We describe a perceptual approach to generating features for use in indexing and retrieving images from an image database. Salient regions that immediately attract the eye are large color regions that usually dominate an image. Features derived from these will allow search for images that are similar perceptually. We compute color features and Gabor color texture features on regions obtained from a multiscale representation of the image, generated by a multiband smoothing algorithm based on human psychophysical measurements of color appearance. The combined feature vector is then used for indexing all salient regions of an image. For retrieval, those images are selected that contain more similar regions to the query image by using a multipass retrieval and ranking mechanism. Matches are found using the L₂ metric. The results demonstrate that the proposed method performs very well.     

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.     

Efficient Content-Based Image Retrieval Methods Using Color and Texture

In this paper, we propose efficient content-based image retrieval methods using the automatic extraction of the low-level visual features as image content. Two new feature extraction methods are presented. The first one is an advanced color feature extraction derived from the modification of Stricker's method. The second one is a texture feature extraction using some DCT coefficients which represent some dominant directions and gray level variations of the image. In the experiment with an image database of 200 natural images, the proposed methods show higher performance than other methods. They can be combined into an efficient hierarchical retrieval method.     

一种基于颜色连通的图像纹理检索新方法

提出并实现一种结合图像颜色连通区域信息及其纹理特征的图像检索新方法.首先提取图像的分块主颜色,根据提出的相关颜色定义,搜索确定图像中的颜色连通区域集.然后,提取图像中各颜色连通区域对应的四种颜色共生矩阵特征,利用针对该特征设计的图像相似性度量函数实现基于内容的图像检索.实验结果表明,该方法能有效结合图像的纹理信息及其颜色构成和分布信息,具有良好的检索效果和性能.     

A CBIR system based on saliency driven local image features and multi orientation texture features

In Content-based Image Retrieval (CBIR), the user provides the query image in which only a selective portion of the image carries the foremost vital information known as the object region of the image. However, the human visual system also focuses on a particular salient region of an image to instinctively understand its semantic meaning. Therefore, the human visual attention technique can be well imposed in the CBIR scheme. Inspired by these facts, we initially utilized the signature saliency map-based approach to decompose the image into its respective main object region (ObR) and non-object region (NObR). ObR possesses most of the vital image information, so block-level normalized singular value decomposition (SVD) has been used to extract salient features of the ObR. In most natural images, NObR plays a significant role in understanding the actual semantic meaning of the image. Accordingly, multi-directional texture features have been extracted from NObR using Gabor filter on different wavelengths. Since the importance of ObR and NObR features are not equal, a new homogeneity-based similarity matching approach has been devised to enhance retrieval accuracy. Finally, we have demonstrated retrieval performances using both the combined and distinct ObR and NObR features on seven standard coral, texture, object, and heterogeneous datasets. The experimental outcomes show that the proposed CBIR system has a promising retrieval efficiency and outperforms various existing systems substantially.     

A fast and efficient image retrieval system based on color and texture features

We propose a fast and efficient image retrieval system based on color and texture features. The color features are represented by color histograms and texture features are represented by block difference of inverse probabilities (BDIP) and block variation of local correlation coefficients (BVLC). It is observed that color features in combination with the texture features derived on the brightness component provides approximately similar results when color features are combined with the texture features using all three components of color, but with much less processing time. An analysis of various distance measures reveals that the square-chord distance measure outperforms the other prominent distance measures for the proposed method. Detailed experimental analysis is carried out using precision and recall on four datasets: Corel-5K, Corel-10K, UKbench and Holidays. The time analysis is also performed to compare processing speeds of the proposed method with the existing similar best methods.