Region-based color image indexing and retrieval

Author

Kompatsiaris, Ioannis ; Triantafillou, Evagelia ; Strintzis, Michael G.

Author_Institution

Inf. Process. Lab., Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

658

Abstract

A region-based color image indexing and retrieval algorithm is presented. As a basis for the indexing, a novel K-Means segmentation algorithm is used, modified so as to take into account the coherence of the regions. A new color distance is also defined for this algorithm. Based on the extracted regions, characteristic features are estimated using color, texture and shape information. An important and unique aspect of the algorithm is that, in the context of similarity-based querying, the user is allowed to view the internal representation of the submitted image and the query results. Experimental results demonstrate the performance of the algorithm. The development of an intelligent image content-based search engine for the World-Wide Web is also presented, as a direct application of the presented algorithm

Keywords

content-based retrieval; database indexing; feature extraction; image colour analysis; image representation; image retrieval; image segmentation; image texture; information resources; knowledge based systems; search engines; very large databases; visual databases; K-Means segmentation algorithm; World Wide Web; characteristic feature estimation; color distance; color image indexing; content-based search; image databases; image query; image retrieval; image texture; intelligent search engine; internal image representation; performance; region coherence; region extraction; region-based indexing; shape information; similarity-based querying; very large databases; Color; Data mining; Feature extraction; Image retrieval; Image segmentation; Indexing; Information retrieval; Search engines; Shape; Web sites;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Image Processing, 2001. Proceedings. 2001 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Thessaloniki

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6725-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIP.2001.959131

Filename

959131