Color descriptors of an image are the most widely used visual features in content-based image retrieval sys- tems. In this study, we present a novel color-based image retrieval framework by integrating color space qua...Color descriptors of an image are the most widely used visual features in content-based image retrieval sys- tems. In this study, we present a novel color-based image retrieval framework by integrating color space quantization and feature coding. Although color features have advantages such as robustness and simple extraction, direct processing of the abundant amount of color information in an RGB image is a challenging task. To overcome this problem, a color space clustering quantization algorithm is proposed to obtain the clustering color space （CCS） by clustering the CIE1976L＊a＊b＊ space into 256 distinct colors, which ade- quately accommodate human visual perception. In addition, a new feature coding method called feature-to-character coding （FCC） is proposed to encode the block-based main color fea- tures into character codes. In this method, images are repre- sented by character codes that contribute to efficiently build- ing an inverted index by using color features and by utilizing text-based search engines. Benefiting from its high-efficiency computation, the proposed framework can also be applied to large-scale web image retrieval. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed system can produce a signifi- cant augmentation in performance when compared to block- based main color image retrieval systems that utilize the tra- ditional HSV（Hue, Saturation, Value） quantization method.展开更多
基金This work was supported in part by the National Natu- ral Science Foundation of China （Grant No. 61370149）, in part by the Funda- mental Research Funds for the Central Universities （ZYGX2013J083）, and in part by the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chi- nese Scholars, State Education Ministry.
文摘Color descriptors of an image are the most widely used visual features in content-based image retrieval sys- tems. In this study, we present a novel color-based image retrieval framework by integrating color space quantization and feature coding. Although color features have advantages such as robustness and simple extraction, direct processing of the abundant amount of color information in an RGB image is a challenging task. To overcome this problem, a color space clustering quantization algorithm is proposed to obtain the clustering color space （CCS） by clustering the CIE1976L＊a＊b＊ space into 256 distinct colors, which ade- quately accommodate human visual perception. In addition, a new feature coding method called feature-to-character coding （FCC） is proposed to encode the block-based main color fea- tures into character codes. In this method, images are repre- sented by character codes that contribute to efficiently build- ing an inverted index by using color features and by utilizing text-based search engines. Benefiting from its high-efficiency computation, the proposed framework can also be applied to large-scale web image retrieval. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed system can produce a signifi- cant augmentation in performance when compared to block- based main color image retrieval systems that utilize the tra- ditional HSV（Hue, Saturation, Value） quantization method.
