一种分形域基于内容的图像检索方法

基于内容的图像检索是多媒体、网络通信及计算机等应用研究领域的一项关键技术。该文提出了一种在分形压缩域直接进行基于内容的图像检索方法。该方法不需要对查询图像进行分形变换，因此可以提高检索速度，降低检索复杂度。仿真结果表明，使用该文提出的方法，能够有效地进行分形域基于内容的图像检索，比较大幅度地降低了检索时间，优于试验中其他3种方法。     

基于方块编码的图像纹理特征提取及检索算法

针对灰度共生矩阵（GLCM）在提取纹理特征时存在的问题,提出一种基于方块编码（BTC）的图像纹理特征的检索算法。首先将图像分成互不重叠的子图像块,然后利用BTC的思想对这些图像块进行编码,进而定义图像的纹理基元并以此作为对图像的纹理描述,并提出采用一种改进的基于纹理基元的共生矩阵来获取纹理特征。实验结果表明,该方法既有效地利用了图像的纹理信息,又考虑了图像的空间和形状信息,具有较好的检索效果。     

用于图像编码的相关矢量量化研究

当相邻的图像块用矢量量化（ＶＱ）编码时可能出现编码地址相同的情况,尤其是在图像的平滑区。为了减少相邻块间编码地址的相关性,本文提出了一种相关矢量量化方案,采用相关码书与改进的自组织特征映射（ＩＳＯＦＭ）码书同时编码一个窗口内的四个邻域块,与无记忆类ＶＱ相比,对一幅典型的“Ｌｅｎｎａ”图象,编码过程中所需计算量减少一半,比特率减少４０％,由于在Ｋｏｈｏｎｅｎ自组织神经网络的训练过程中,对边缘类矢量采     

序号预测矢量量化器及其在图象编码中应用

本文提出一种序号预测矢量量化器的结构，与一般矢量量化器相比，它充分利用了图象极强的二维相关特性，并采用预测的方法去除冗余码字，从而在保证译码图象质量与一般矢量量化器的译码图象质量相同的前提下，压缩比可提高一倍以上。     

彩色和等色图像的非监督反射分量分离

反射分量分离是计算机视觉和数字图像处理中的一个重要问题。尽管已有很多基于单张图像的反射分量分离方法,但这些方法只能分离图像中彩色区域的反射分量并会在等色区域产生严重的噪声。本文提出一种能够分离图像彩色和等色区域反射分量的方法。彩色和等色区域高光的共同特征是亮度在局部区域中逐渐变化,因此本文算法首先将亮度信息融入传统的无高光图像,提出能够区分不同亮度等色区域的改进的无高光图像;然后提取局部位置空间亮度差异特征和局部颜色空间亮度差异特征,并用K-Means方法检测图像中的镜面反射像素;最后用颜色传递方法估计出漫反射分量,实现漫反射和镜面反射分量的分离。实验结果表明本文算法能够同时有效地分离彩色和等色区域的反射分量。本文算法扩展了反射分量分离方法的应用范围。      

基于形状的图像检索技术研究

基于形状的图像检索技术是基于内容的图像检索技术的一个重要组成部分。现有的形状特征检索技术主要集中在形状特征的提取及相似性度量、形状特征与颜色和纹理特征结合、形状特征与高层的语义特征结合的研究。在分析现有的基于形状的图像检索技术的一些关键技术的基础上,对基于小波-傅里叶特征(WFD)的形状检索方法进行了研究,并提出了一些改进算法。结合Matlab和ACCESS实现了一个基于形状的图像检索实验系统,建立了用户界面,选取与设计了4个图像测试集,使用检索性能评价方法对形状特征的检索结果进行了客观的评价。实验结果表明,利用本文所提出改进的形状特征进行检索取得了较好的检索效果。     

一个基于MPEG-7颜色与形状的图像检索系统

结合MPEG-7的颜色与形状两种描述符设计出了一个新的图像检索系统,利用MPEG-7提供的主颜色描述符及基于区域的形状描述算法--角放射变换(ART)对图像进行特征提取、描述.实验用MPEG-7的评价准则进行评判,由包括花卉、自然风景及商标组成的图像库进行测试,结果表明,综合这两种特征进行检索比使用单一特征取得的检索效果更佳.     

Vector quantization with hierarchical classification of sub-blocks

A hierarchical classified vector quantization (HCVQ) method is described. In this method, the image is coded in several steps, starting with a relatively large block size, and successively dividing the block into smaller sub-blocks in a quad-tree fashion. The initial block is first vector quantized in the normal way. Classified vector quantization is then performed for its sub-blocks using the vector index of the initial block, i.e. rough information of the image, and the location of the sub-block within the initial block as classifiers. The coding proceeds in a similar way, adding more information of the fine details at each level. The method is found to be effective and to give a good subjective quality. It is also simple to implement, leading to coding speeds typical to a tree search VQ.     

Importance prioritisation in JPEG 2000 for improved interpretability

Importance prioritised coding is an image coding principle aimed at improving the interpretability versus bit-rate performance of image coding systems. It is important in surveillance where image formats are large and transmission over bandlimited channels can take considerable time even for compressed bit-streams. It is also useful in content-based retrieval and browsing applications, where the number of images viewed tend to be large and faster interpretability would imply faster rejection of unwanted partially decompressed images. An importance prioritised image coder incorporated within the JPEG 2000 framework, called IMP-J2K, is presented, to prioritise image contents according to a metric based on its ‘importance’. The performance of IMP-J2K is also quantitatively assessed using the objective peak signal-to-noise ratio quality and subjective national imagery interpretability rating scale.     

Structural image retrieval using automatic image annotation and region based inverted file

Image retrieval has lagged far behind text retrieval despite more than two decades of intensive research effort. Most of the research on image retrieval in the last two decades are on content based image retrieval or image retrieval based on low level features. Recent research in this area focuses on semantic image retrieval using automatic image annotation. Most semantic image retrieval techniques in literature, however, treat an image as a bag of features/words while ignore the structural or spatial information in the image. In this paper, we propose a structural image retrieval method based on automatic image annotation and region based inverted file. In the proposed system, regions in an image are treated the same way as keywords in a structural text document, semantic concepts are learnt from image data to label image regions as keywords and weight is assigned to each keyword according to spatial position and relationship. As the result, images are indexed and retrieved in the same way as structural document retrieval. Specifically, images are broken down to regions which are represented using colour, texture and shape features. Region features are then quantized to create visual dictionaries which are similar to monolingual dictionaries like English or Chinese dictionaries. In the next step, a semantic dictionary similar to a bilingual dictionary like the English–Chinese dictionary is learnt to mapping image regions to semantic concepts. Finally, images are then indexed and retrieved using a novel region based inverted file data structure. Results show the proposed method has significant advantage over the widely used Bayesian annotation models.     

基于内容检索的图像数据库流水索引法的研究

图像数据库容量的增长,需要研究高效的索引技术来支持快速相似性检索的要求。总结了图像数据库检索技术的发展轨迹和特点,针对基于内容的图像检索技术中的局限性,从计算机底层硬件的角度提出了基于内容检索的流水索引法。该方法将基于内容的图像检索技术与CpU流水线结构紧密结合,对检索算法进行优化,通过举例比较,说明可提高图像数据库基于内容检索的速度。