Color and texture descriptors

Author

Manjunath, B.S. ; Ohm, Jens-Rainer ; Vasudevan, Vinod V. ; Yamada, Akio

Author_Institution

Inst. for Commun. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Volume

11

Issue

6

fYear

2001

fDate

6/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

703

Lastpage

715

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of color and texture descriptors that have been approved for the Final Committee Draft of the MPEG-7 standard. The color and texture descriptors that are described in this paper have undergone extensive evaluation and development during the past two years. Evaluation criteria include effectiveness of the descriptors in similarity retrieval, as well as extraction, storage, and representation complexities. The color descriptors in the standard include a histogram descriptor that is coded using the Haar transform, a color structure histogram, a dominant color descriptor, and a color layout descriptor. The three texture descriptors include one that characterizes homogeneous texture regions and another that represents the local edge distribution. A compact descriptor that facilitates texture browsing is also defined. Each of the descriptors is explained in detail by their semantics, extraction and usage. The effectiveness is documented by experimental results

Keywords

Haar transforms; code standards; feature extraction; image coding; image colour analysis; image representation; image texture; telecommunication standards; transform coding; Haar transform coding; MPEG-7 standard; color descriptors; color layout descriptor; color structure histogram; compact descriptor; dominant color descriptor; evaluation criteria; extraction; histogram descriptor; homogeneous texture regions; local edge distribution; representation complexity; semantics; similarity retrieval; storage; texture browsing; texture descriptors; Code standards; Color; Histograms; MPEG 7 Standard; National electric code; Standardization; Testing; Transform coding; Video compression; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8215

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/76.927424

Filename

927424