Affine-Invariant Image Retrieval Based on Wavelet Interest Points

This paper presents an affine-in variant image retrieval approach based on wavelet-based detector, which uses the space-tree property of the transform coefficients to estimate the interest points. Meanwhile, in order to retrieve images compressed by wavelet algorithm such as JPEG2000, the detector only uses the partial bit-planes of the wavelet coefficients to detect the interest points. To provide affine-invariant image matching, annular color histogram, annular texture histogram and spatial cohesion based on interest points are presented to describe image features. A series of experiments based on an image database consisting of 1000 images are performed to confirm the effectiveness of our method