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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.
A Novel Content Image Retrieval Method Based on Contourlet
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Content-based image retrieval is an active and fast advancing research area since the 1990s as a result of advances in the Internet and new digital image sensor technologies. However, many challenging research problems continue to attract researchers from multiple disciplines. Content-based image retrieval uses the visual contents of an image as features to represent and index the image to be searched from large scale image databases. The quality of the selected features relies mainly on the degree of the invariance property that is ensured under acceptable manipulations. This paper proposes an efficient method for compactly representing color and texture features and combining them for image retrieval. The performance of retrieval based on these compact descriptors obtained by the proposed techniques is analyzed and tested on wang database images yielding satisfactory accuracy rates. A comparative study demonstrated that the developed feature extraction scheme outperformed the other schemes being compared with.
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Texture Image Retrieval Using Complex Directional Filter Bank
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