A fuzzy logic based approach to feedback reinforcement in image retrieval

  • Authors:
  • Vincenzo Di Lecce;Alberto Amato

  • Affiliations:
  • DIASS, Politecnico di Bari, Taranto, Italy;DIASS, Politecnico di Bari, Taranto, Italy

  • Venue:
  • ICIC'09 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Emerging intelligent computing technology and applications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Nowadays, due to the spread of digital imaging technologies, the design of effective content based image retrieval (CBIR) systems is perceived by the research community as a primary problem. Various techniques such as clustering and relevance feedback were proposed to obtain a certain level of knowledge about a given image database. Often clustering techniques were used to obtain a first level characterization of the image database used to speed up the successive stage of queries. In this work the authors use the knowledge obtained using a fuzzy clustering algorithm to reinforce the user feedback. The system was tested on the Columbia Coil-20 image database and the obtained results seem to be encouraging.