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Image Retrieval Based on Discrete Curvelet Transform

Iraqi Journal of Information and Communications Technology, 2021

Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) is a process of searching for an image according to the content or feature that is within it. Nowadays, most image retrieval applications have been developed to meet these needs, so this application will provide comfort in introducing and searching for an image. This paper proposed a standard structured framework with three stages: Preprocessing is the first step, in which noise from images is removed using various filters. The filters' results are compared to determine the best and most appropriate filter for the images. Feature Extraction of images using Curvelet Transform is the second stage. The third stage includes similarity measurement between query image features to database image features and extracting the identical image from the image dataset. The system was performed using Matlab 2017b, GUI and, with ten different classes of 1000 images using a coral database. The results show improved performance of precision and recall when hig...

Modified curvelet transform with vocabulary tree for content based image retrieval

Digital Signal Processing, 2013

This work represents a modified curvelet transform (MCT) and its combination with vocabulary tree (VT) for feature collection and retrieval of the images from database. MCT has been implemented using the Gabor wavelet sub-bands. The proposed algorithm captures edge information in an image more accurately than Gabor transform (GT) and curvelet transform which uses à trous wavelet transform (ACT) for decomposition of an image. The MCT uses the ridgelet transform as a component step and implements curvelet sub-bands using a filter bank of Gabor wavelet filters. Descriptor vectors (energy histogram vectors) of each image are indexed using vocabulary tree. The proposed method is tested on Corel image database and the retrieval results demonstrate significant improvement in weighted average precision, average precision, average retrieval rate, and average rank compared to the ACT and GT.

Image Object Extraction Based on Curvelet Transform

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences, 2013

Image-object extraction is one of the most important parts in the image processing. Object extraction is the technique of extracting objects from the pre-processed image in such a way that withinclass similarity is maximized and betweenclass similarity is minimized. In this paper, a new method of extracting objects from grey scale static images using Fast Discrete Curvelet Transform (FDCT) via wrapping function is proposed. The motivation of using the curvelet transform in the proposed method is due to the approximate properties and the high directional sensitivity of this transform. An imaginary component of the curvelet coefficients to extract the object in the image is used. Firstly, the Curvelet transform is applied on the input image. Secondly, the Canny edge detector is applied on the edge image in all sub bands in the curvelet domain. Thirdly, the inverse of Curvelet transform is applied and finally; morphological filters are used to extract objects from the obtained binary image. Experimental results of the proposed method are compared with the results of extracting objects in the wavelet domain and the pixel domain. Indeed, the curvelet have useful geometric features that set them apart from the wavelet and the pixel domain.

A New Approach to Region Based Image Retrieval using Shape Adaptive Discrete Wavelet Transform

International Journal of Image, Graphics and Signal Processing, 2016

In this paper, we present an efficient regionbased image retrieval method, which uses multi-features color, texture and edge descriptors. In contrast to recent image retrieval methods, which use discrete wavelet transform (DWT), we propose using shape adaptive discrete wavelet transform (SA-DWT). The advantage of this method is that the number of coefficients after transformation is identical to the number of pixels in the original region. Since image data is often stored in compressed formats: JPEG 2000, MPEG 4…; constructing image histograms directly in the compressed domain, allows accelerating the retrieval operation time, and reducing computing complexities. Moreover, SA-DWT represents the best way to exploit the coefficients characteristics, and properties such as the correlation. Characterizing image regions without any conversion or modification is first addressed. Using edge descriptor to complement image region characterizing is then introduced. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms content based image retrieval methods and recent region based image retrieval methods.

Integrating contourlet features with texture, color and spatial features for effective image retrieval

2010 2nd IEEE International Conference on Information Management and Engineering, 2010

Over the past few years, Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) has been an active research area. A rapid proliferation has been witnessed in the fields of both theoretical research and development of the CBIR system. The most commonly used transformation techniques in CBIR include wavelet and Fourier transformations; in spite of their widespread utilization, they have not been very effective in representing the image regions that are separated by smooth contours. An effective alternative, Contourlet Transformation performs well in representing the time-frequency localization of the images. In this paper, we propose a CBIR system for effective retrieval of images from a database for a given query image. The proposed CBIR system utilizes CT to extract the content of the image in terms of directional contours, horizontal and vertical edges of the image. In addition, the system extracts texture, color and spatial features from the images. In image retrieval, the system measures the similarity between the features of the query image and the images in the database using Squared Euclidean distance. Eventually, the images similar to the query image are effectively retrieved, chiefly based on the contourlet features.

Color Histogram with Curvelet and CEDD for Content-Based Image Retrieval

Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) is one of the most vigorous research areas in the field of pattern recognition and computer vision over the past few years. The accessibility and progressive development of visual and multimedia data, as well as the evolution of the internet, emphasize the necessity to develop retrieval systems that are capable of dealing with a large collection of databases. Many visual features have been explored, and it is virtually observed that implementing one kind of features is not efficient in retrieving different types of images. Therefore, in this paper, the author proposes an efficient image retrieval technique that joins color and texture features. The curvelet descriptors that are obtained by using wrapping based discrete curvelet transform are used as texture features. While color features are extracted using quantized RGB color histogram (QCH). Besides, color edge directivity descriptor (CEDD), which joins color and texture features in one histogram is obtained. A multiclass SVM is applied to classify the query images. Four datasets (ALOI, COIL-100, Wang, and Corel-1000) are used to test and assess the proposed system. Improved retrieval results are obtained over CBIR systems based on curvelet descriptors and CEDD individually and jointly. Furthermore, comprehensive experiments have been performed to select the number of histogram bins that achieves an effective and efficient image retrieval. The obtained average precision for the ALOI, COIL-100, Wang and Corel-1000 datasets are 0.996, 998, 0.898 and 0.964, respectively. Also, comparisons with several state-of-the-arts demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed system in refining the retrieval performance.

Opponent Color And Curvelet Transform Based Image Retrieval System Using Genetic Algorithm

2015

In order to retrieve images efficiently from a large database, a unique method integrating color and texture features using genetic programming has been proposed. Opponent color histogram which gives shadow, shade, and light intensity invariant property is employed in the proposed framework for extracting color features. For texture feature extraction, fast discrete curvelet transform which captures more orientation information at different scales is incorporated to represent curved like edges. The recent scenario in the issues of image retrieval is to reduce the semantic gap between user's preference and low level features. To address this concern, genetic algorithm combined with relevance feedback is embedded to reduce semantic gap and retrieve user's preference images. Extensive and comparative experiments have been conducted to evaluate proposed framework for content based image retrieval on two databases, i.e., COIL-100 and Corel-1000. Experimental results clearly show ...

Texture image retrieval using contourlet transform

2009 International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems, 2009

Content based image retrieval is a challenging issue in management of existing large digital image libraries and databases. The accuracy of image retrieval methods is subject to effective extraction of image features such as color, texture, and shape. In this paper we propose a new image retrieval method using contourlet transform coefficients. We use the properties of contourlet coefficients to assign the normal distribution function to the distribution of coefficients in each sub-band. The assigned normal distribution functions are used to extract the texture feature vector at the next stage. Simulation results indicate that the proposed method outperforms other conventional texture image retrieval methods such as, Gabor filter and wavelet transform. Moreover, this method shows a noticeable higher performance compared to another contourlet based method.

Color Face recognition based on curvelet transform

In this article, a new color feature extraction algorithm and a new hybrid color space is proposed in order to further enhance the color face recognition performance. First, it is searched the best combination way of color component images of the YIQ, the YCbCr, and the HSV color spaces transformed from RGB color space. Secondly it is decomposed by applying curvelet transform to each of color component images at the proposed hybrid color space. Thirdly it is reduced by PCA the feature set. Fourthly it is used Support Vector Machines (SVM) and k-Nearest-Neighbour (k-NN) classifiers for face verification. Finally the classifier outputs are fused a weighted majority voting rule. The experiments on the color FERET database and the Georgia Tech database show that the proposed Color Curvelet Face Recognition (CCFR) algorithm improves face recognition performance.

TRADITIONAL INDIAN PAINTING RETRIEVAL SYSTEM BASED ON CURVELET TRANSFORM AND COMPARISON THE RESULT USING GABOR FILTER

Today the technology in which relevant images from a large databases are searched according to the user's interest is famous by the name of Content based Image Retrieval or CBIR. Since last two decades it has become an active and fast advancing field amongst the researchers. Last decade is witness of the progress achieved in both theoretical as well as in system development. However this area of technology is still full of challenges that researchers from multiple disciplines are being continuously attracted to work with. As we are well known about the hierarchy of spectral methods of texture feature extraction starting from Fourier Transform (FT) to the latest Gabor filter transform, which became very popular for many useful applications still was found to lag the curved point singularities or can say curve lines along the edges of images. In this paper to overcome this problem we have chosen to work with Curvelet transform. The dataset of retrieval system we are presenting here is made up of three Indian traditional paintings named as Warli, Madhubani and Fadd. As mentioned earlier Curvelet transform will be applied to get the result. In the second part of this paper we shall also compare the result with Gabor transform.