Shape-based image retrieval

  • Authors:
  • Nan Xing;Imran Shafiq Ahmad

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada;University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Shape is one of the most important image features for retrieval of images in a Content-Based Image Retrieval system. However, due to inherent difficulties and limitations of processes to describe a shape, this feature is fairly less commonly used. We propose a neural network-based shape retrieval system in which moment invariants and/or Zernike moments form a feature vector to describe the shape of an object. Fuzzy k-means clustering groups similar images in an image collection into k-clusters whereas neural network facilitates efficient retrieval of similar images. Neural network is trained by the clustering results of all of the images in the data collection such that its input is the feature vector obtained through the calculated moments and its output dictates the degree of membership among the k-clusters. Retrieval results and performance of the proposed system is compared and analyzed against an earlier proposed system.