Abstract:

At present, the accuracy of image retrieval is a difficult problem to study, the main reason is the method of feature extraction. In order to improve the precision of image retrieval, a new image retrieval method based on multi-feature called CAUC (Comprehensive Analysis based on the Underlying Characteristics) was presented. First, based on YUV color space, the mean value and the standard deviation were used to extract the global feature from an image that depicted the global characteristics of the image, and the image bitmap was introduced to describe the local characteristics of the image. Secondly, the compactness and Krawtchouk moment were extracted to describe the shape features. Then, the texture features were described by the improved four-pixel co-occurrence matrix. Finally, the similarity between images was computed based on multi-feature fusion, and the images with high similarity were returned.On Corel-1000 image set, the comparative experiments with method which only considered four-pixel co-occurrence matrix showed that the retrieval time of CAUC was greatly reduced without significantly reducing the precision and recall. In addition, compared with the other two kinds of retrieval methods based on multi-feature fusion, CAUC improved the precision and recall with high retrieval speed. The experimental results demonstrate that CAUC method is effective to extract the image feature, and improve retrieval efficiency.

Key words: image retrieval, YUV color space, binary bitmap, Krawtchouk moment, four-pixel co-occurrence matrix

摘要：

目前图像检索的准确性是研究的难题,主要在于特征提取的方法。为了提高图像检索的精度,在图像底层特征研究的基础上,提出了一种综合多特征的图像检索算法——基于底层特征综合分析算法(CAUC)。首先,在YUV颜色空间下提取图像的平均值和标准方差作为全局颜色特征,获得图像的二值位图,提取其局部颜色特征;然后,基于紧密度和Krawtchouk矩不变量提取图像的形状特征;再根据改进的四像素共生矩阵算法提取图像的纹理特征;最后综合多特征将待查询图像与图像库中图像进行相似度计算,返回相似度高的图像。在Corel-1000的图像集上的实验结果显示,与原来仅考虑四像素共生矩阵的方法相比,CAUC的查准率与查全率没有明显降低,但检索时间大大减少;与另外两种多特征融合的图像检索方法相比,CAUC仍能在保证较高检索速度的同时提高查准率与查全率。实验结果表明,CAUC方案能有效提取图像特征,提高检索效率。

关键词: 图像检索, YUV颜色空间, 二值位图, Krawtchouk矩, 四像素共生矩阵