AN INTEGRATED GLOBAL AND FUZZY REGIONAL APPROACH TO CONTENT-BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL

Xiaojun Qi, Yutao Han

2004

Abstract

This paper proposes an effective and efficient approach to content-based image retrieval by integrating global visual features and fuzzy region-based color and texture features. The Cauchy function is utilized to fuzzify each independent regional color and texture feature for addressing the issues associated with the color/texture inaccuracies and segmentation uncertainties. The overall similarity measure is computed as a weighted combination between global and regional similarity measures incorporating all features. Our proposed approach demonstrates a promising performance on an image database of 1000 general-purpose images from COREL, as compared with some variants of the proposed method and some peer systems in the literature.

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Qi X. and Han Y. (2004). AN INTEGRATED GLOBAL AND FUZZY REGIONAL APPROACH TO CONTENT-BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 3: ICETE, ISBN 972-8865-15-5, pages 339-344. DOI: 10.5220/0001390003390344


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@conference{icete04,
author={Xiaojun Qi and Yutao Han},
title={AN INTEGRATED GLOBAL AND FUZZY REGIONAL APPROACH TO CONTENT-BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 3: ICETE,},
year={2004},
pages={339-344},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001390003390344},
isbn={972-8865-15-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 3: ICETE,
TI - AN INTEGRATED GLOBAL AND FUZZY REGIONAL APPROACH TO CONTENT-BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL
SN - 972-8865-15-5
AU - Qi X.
AU - Han Y.
PY - 2004
SP - 339
EP - 344
DO - 10.5220/0001390003390344