矢量量化用于颜色图像检索的改进方法

为了消除基于颜色的图像检索在颜色空间分布描述方向的不足,提出一种新的基于颜色的检索方法。引入颜色转移矩阵描述颜色的空间分布,再结合颜色直方图和颜色转移矩阵进行复合图像检索。同时通过矢量量化方法量化图像颜色得到颜色直方图和颜色转移矩阵,实现了在压缩领域进行图像检索,减少了额外计算负担。实验表明,该方法能有效提高检索效率和精度。     

An effective method for color image retrieval based on texture

This paper presents an effective color image retrieval method based on texture, which uses the color co-occurrence matrix to extract the texture feature and measure the similarity of two color images. Due to the color information such as components and distribution is also taken into consideration, the feature obtained not only reflects the texture correlation but also represents the color information. As a result, our proposed method is superior to the gray-level co-occurrence matrix method and color histogram method, and it enhances the retrieval accuracy which is measured in terms of the recall and precision in the meanwhile.     

Efficient content-based image retrieval using Multiple Support Vector Machines Ensemble

With the evolution of digital technology, there has been a significant increase in the number of images stored in electronic format. These range from personal collections to medical and scientific images that are currently collected in large databases. Many users and organizations now can acquire large numbers of images and it has been very important to retrieve relevant multimedia resources and to effectively locate matching images in the large databases. In this context, content-based image retrieval systems (CBIR) have become very popular for browsing, searching and retrieving images from a large database of digital images with minimum human intervention. The research community are competing for more efficient and effective methods as CBIR systems may be heavily employed in serving time critical applications in scientific and medical domains. This paper proposes an extremely fast CBIR system which uses Multiple Support Vector Machines Ensemble. We have used Daubechies wavelet transformation for extracting the feature vectors of images. The reported test results are very promising. Using data mining techniques not only improved the efficiency of the CBIR systems, but they also improved the accuracy of the overall process.     

Interactive localized content based image retrieval with multiple-instance active learning

In this paper, we propose two general multiple-instance active learning (MIAL) methods, multiple-instance active learning with a simple margin strategy (S-MIAL) and multiple-instance active learning with fisher information (F-MIAL), and apply them to the active learning in localized content based image retrieval (LCBIR). S-MIAL considers the most ambiguous picture as the most valuable one, while F-MIAL utilizes the fisher information and analyzes the value of the unlabeled pictures by assigning different labels to them. In experiments, we will show their superior performances in LCBIR tasks.     

Color image retrieval using multispectral random field texture model and color content features

This paper describes a color-texture-based image retrieval system for query of an image database to find similar images to a target image. The color-texture information is obtained via modeling with the multispectral simultaneous autoregressive (MSAR) random field model. The general color content characterized by ratios of sample color means is also used. The retrieval process involves segmenting the image into regions of uniform color texture using an unsupervised histogram clustering approach that utilizes the combination of MSAR and color features. The color-texture content, location, area and shape of the segmented regions are used to develop similarity measures describing the closeness of a query image to database images. These attributes are derived from the maximum fitting square and best fitting ellipse to each of the segmented regions. The proposed similarity measure combines all these attributes to rank the closeness of the images. The performance of the system is tested on two databases containing synthetic mosaics of natural textures and natural scenes, respectively.     

Extraction of major object features using VQ clustering for content-based image retrieval

An image representation method using vector quantization (VQ) on color and texture is proposed in this paper. The proposed method is also used to retrieve similar images from database systems. The basic idea is a transformation from the raw pixel data to a small set of image regions, which are coherent in color and texture space. A scheme is provided for object-based image retrieval. Features for image retrieval are the three color features (hue, saturation, and value) from the HSV color model and five textural features (ASM, contrast, correlation, variance, and entropy) from the gray-level co-occurrence matrices. Once the features are extracted from an image, eight-dimensional feature vectors represent each pixel in the image. The VQ algorithm is used to rapidly cluster those feature vectors into groups. A representative feature table based on the dominant groups is obtained and used to retrieve similar images according to the object within the image. This method can retrieve similar images even in cases where objects are translated, scaled, and rotated.     

基于内容图像检索中的相关反馈技术研究*

简要介绍了基于内容的图像检索,讨论了相关反馈的基本思想及其交互过程,重点对现有的相关反馈算法进行了分类总结和分析,并展望了今后相关反馈技术的发展趋势。     

Towards intelligent image retrieval

Research into techniques for the retrieval of images by semantic content is still in its infancy. This paper reviews recent trends in the field, distinguishing four separate lines of activity: automatic scene analysis, model-based and statistical approaches to object classification, and adaptive learning from user feedback. It compares the strengths and weaknesses of model-based and adaptive techniques, and argues that further advances in the field are likely to involve the increasing use of techniques from the field of artificial intelligence.     

Expert system design using wavelet and color vocabulary trees for image retrieval

A new image indexing and retrieval system for content based image retrieval (CBIR) is proposed in this paper. The characteristics (vector points) of image are computed using color (color histogram) and SOT (spatial orientation tree). The SOT defines the spatial parent-child relationship among wavelet coefficients in multi-resolution wavelet sub-bands. First the image is divided into sub-blocks and then constructed the SOT for each low pass wavelet coefficient is considered as a vector point of that particular image. Similarly the color histogram features are collected from the each sub-block. The vector points of each image are indexed using vocabulary tree. The retrieval results of the proposed method are tested on different image databases, i.e., natural image database consists of Corel 1000 (DB1), Brodatz texture image database (DB2) and MIT VisTex database (DB3). The results after being investigated show a significant improvement in terms of average precision, average recall and average retrieval rate on DB1 database and average retrieval rate on texture databases (DB2 and DB3) as compared with most of existing techniques on respective databases.     

采用位平面直方图特征向量的图像检索方法

首先将图像分解为8个位平面,选择前4个重要位平面,求出其灰度码表示,根据每个灰度码位平面的颜色直方图,计算均值、标准偏差、偏斜度、能量、熵;综合这些特征构成名为位平面直方图特征向量的组合特征,进行图像检索。实验中采用Tonimoto相似度量函数计算图像间的相似度。该方法计算速度快,避免了图像量化造成的误检。实验结果显示了该方法的检索性能。     

基于色彩和边缘特征的图像检索方法

为了改善基于内容的图像检索的效果和提高其检索效率,提出一种基于色彩和边缘特征的图像检索方法。首先将RGB图像分成几个子图像的形式,然后,对于每一个子图像提取其色彩特征和边缘特征,其中边缘特征的获得采用了瞬时保持（MP）边缘检测技术。将这两种特征结合在一起使用,可以实现准确快捷的图像检索。实验结果表明,该方法在检索精度和检索效率上都高于Cheng的两种方法且所用的时间分别为Cheng的方法的10%和3%,检索精度提高近20%。     

基于最小重构误差的优化局部聚合描述符向量图像检索算法

针对局部聚合描述符向量(VLAD)模型中对特征软量化时权重系数的取值不确定性和特征量化误差较大问题,提出一种具有最小重构误差的权重系数分配算法。该算法以最小化重构误差为标准,将具有最小化重构误差的稀疏编码的编码系数作为软量化VLAD的权重系数。数据库的图像检索测试结果表明,该算法相比主流的VLAD特征编码算法所得图像检索精度可提高10%左右,且有更小的特征重构误差。     

Image indexing and retrieval based on color histograms

While general object recognition is difficult, it is relatively easy to capture various primitive properties such as color distributions, prominent regions and their topological features from an image and use them to narrow down the search space when attempts to retrieving images by contents from an image database are made.In this paper, we present an image database in which images are indexed and retrieved based on color histograms. We first address the problems inherent in color histograms created by the conventional method, and then propose a new method to create histograms which are compact in size and insensitive to minor illumination variations such as highlight, shape, and etc. A powerful indexing scheme where each histogram of an image is encoded into a numerical key, and stored in a two-layered tree structure is introduced. This approach turns the problem of histogram matching, which is computation intensive, into index key search, so as to realize quick data access in a large scale image database. Two types of user interfaces, Query by user provided sample images, and Query by combination of the system provided templates, are provided to meet various user requests. Various experimental evaluations exhibit the effectiveness of the image database system.     

一种基于区域综合特征的图像检索方法

提出一种基于目标区域的图像检索方法,首先采用颜色聚类的分割方法将图像分割成不同的区域,提取每个区域的颜色、位置、形状等低层特征,然后提出一种相似度计算方法实现图像的相似性度量。为了提高图像检索的准确度,最后采用支持向量机（SVM）的相关反馈算法。实验结果表明,基于目标区域的图像检索效果比基于全局图像特征的检索效果有较好的改善。     

基于多颜色空间的图像检索方法

介绍了HSV在低饱和度和低亮度时的色调奇异性,分析了HSV的色调奇异性对图像检索的影响。在此基础上,提出了基于多颜色空间的图像检索方法,奇异区域的像素点用YUV颜色空间表示,其他像素点用HSV颜色空间表示。实验表明,该算法在一定程度上克服了HSV的色调奇异性对图像检索的影响,提高了检索性能。     

基于流行排序的多示例图像检索方法

为了提高图像检索的性能,提出了一种基于流行排序的多示例图像检索方法,将分割后的图像表示为多示例的形式,通过给出适合图像在包空间的度量方式,有效结合流行排序和多示例学习的方法来进行图像检索.实验结果表明,采用所提出的方法的检索结果与传统的检索方法相比,检索率得到了明显的提高,检索结果更符合人的视觉习惯.     

基于颜色和纹理特征的彩色图像检索

提出了一种基于颜色和纹理特征的图像检索方法。在对HSV颜色模型量化处理的基础上,提取颜色直方图作为图像的颜色特征。在提取纹理特征时,结合颜色量化结果,设计了反映图像纹理变化的状态转移概率矩阵,在此基础上,提出采用颜色相关熵来描述图像的纹理特征。由于综合利用了图像的颜色及纹理特征,实验结果表明,该方法取得了较好的检索效果。     

综合MPEG 7中纹理和颜色特征的图像检索方法*

在基于内容的图像检索中, 颜色和纹理是图像检索使用最频繁、最重要的两个视觉特征.但是仅基于一种特征的方法只能表达图像的部分属性.为此提出了综合利用MPEG-7中建议的纹理特征的边缘直方图描述符和颜色特征的主颜色和颜色布局描述符进行检索的方法,并依据MPEG-7中的评价准则评价检索结果.实验结果表明,综合特征检索更符合人的视觉感受要求,检索效果更好.