A Center-Surround Histogram for content-based image retrieval

Authors:
Konstantinos Konstantinidis;Vasileios Vonikakis;Georgios Panitsidis;Ioannis Andreadis
Affiliations:
Democritus University of Thrace, Laboratory of Electronics, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 12 V. Sofias Str., 67100, Xanthi, Greece;Democritus University of Thrace, Laboratory of Electronics, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 12 V. Sofias Str., 67100, Xanthi, Greece;Democritus University of Thrace, Laboratory of Electronics, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 12 V. Sofias Str., 67100, Xanthi, Greece;Democritus University of Thrace, Laboratory of Electronics, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 12 V. Sofias Str., 67100, Xanthi, Greece
Venue:
Pattern Analysis & Applications
Year:
2011

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Abstract

In this paper, a new type of histogram which incorporates only the visual information surrounding the edges of the image is introduced. The edge extraction operation is performed with the use of a center-surround operator of the Human Visual System. The proposed Center-Surround Histogram (CSH) has two main advantages over the classic histogram. First, it reduces the amount of visual information that needs to be processed and second, it incorporates a degree of spatial information when used in content based image retrieval applications. The method is compared with other contemporary image retrieval methods, including that of another edge color histogram, on two different databases. The comparison shows that the use of CSH exhibits better results in shorter execution times.