Fused Color Indexed Histogram and Curvelet Based Image Classification and Retrieval System
Fused Color Indexed Histogram and Curvelet Based Image Classification and Retrieval System
Dr. V. Karpagam
Associate Professor
Department of Information Technology
Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College, Coimbatore
[email protected]
Ph: +919842073310
Abstract
Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) finds its application in a wide variety of domains like quality
control, video surveillance, target identification and industrial automation. Myriad of approaches have
been proposed to retrieve similar images to a query image from the image database. But still the semantic
gap remains to be bridged.
Curvelet transform allows an optimal sparse representation of images. Traditional wavelet transforms
represent the point singularities well, but they ignore the geometric properties and therefor e the edge
information present in an image. They suffer from poor directionality properties.
Introduction
CBIR involves retrieving similar images to a query image from the image database. CBIR gains an edge
over text based retrieval approaches as textual annotations of an image can be ambiguous. Myriad of
approaches are found in literature for CBIR but the semantic gap remains to be bridged, hitherto. The
accuracy with which similar images are retrieved from the image database still remains low.
Related Work
Popular Image retrieval systems like SIMPLIcity[ ], BlobWorld[ ], NetRa[] are all region based systems.
Regions based CBIR (RCBIR) systems partition or segment the images into regions and perform a many
to many comparison of the regions. These techniques are computationally expensive. Many of the global
techniques _____________ compromise on the retrieval accuracy.
Proposed Work
The proposed work makes use of a unique color indexed histogram to extract color information from the
image. Curvelet transform is used to extract texture and shape information. The fused features are
classified using Support Vector Machine (SVM). The performance of the system is evaluated using
SIMPLIcity database of 1000 images. The proposed Curvelet Histogram based image retrieval system
with Support Vector Machine based classification (CHSVM) shows significant improvement in retrieval
accuracy in comparison with WHSVM and other region based systems.
The color indexed histogram results in an improvement in the representation of the semantic content of
the image, when compared to the ordinary 256 bin color histogram. The discretization into 256 colors for
an ordinary histogram is done based on regular intervals, which may result in different colors being
mapped to the same bin and similar colors being mapped into different bins. The color indexed histogram
proposed in this method derives its color map, from one of the images in the database. Therefore, the
distribution of colors will be natural. Minimum variance quantization is used to quantize the colors into
256. The color index also has the added advantage of being able to reconstruct the image with some loss
in color information, with only one third of the space required to store the original images.
Curvelet is used to represent images at different scales and different angles. It has strong directional
properties.
Sub-band decomposition
P0 Low-pass filter.
Energy preservation
Smooth partitioning
Renormalization
Ridgelet analysis
Ref:
Jianwei Ma and GerlindPlonka, The Curvelet Transform - A review of recent applications, IEEE
SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE [118] MARCH 2010.