Color image retrieval based on hidden Markov models

  • Authors:
  • Hsin-Chih Lin;Ling-Ling Wang;Shi-Nine Yang

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Comput. Sci., Nat. Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

In this correspondence, a new approach to retrieving images from a color image database is proposed. Each image in the database is represented by a two-dimensional pseudo-hidden Markov model (2-D PHMM), which characterizes the chromatic and spatial information about the image. In addition, a flexible pictorial querying method is used, by which users can paint the rough content of the desired images in a query picture. Image matching is achieved by comparing the query picture with each 2-D PHMM in the database. Experimental results show that the proposed approach is indeed effective