Color and Shape Index for Region-Based Image Retrieval

  • Authors:
  • B. G. Prasad;S. K. Gupta;K. K. Biswas

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IWVF-4 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Visual Form
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Most CBIR systems use low-level visual features for representation and retrieval of images. Generally such methods suffer from the problems of high-dimensionality leading to more computational time and inefficient indexing and retrieval performance. This paper focuses on a low-dimensional color and shape based indexing technique for achieving efficient and effective retrieval performance. We propose a combined index using color and shape features. A new shape similarity measure is proposed which is shown to be more effective. Images are indexed by dominant color regions and similar images form an image cluster stored in a hash structure. Each region within an image is further indexed by a region-based shape index. The shape index is invariant to translation, rotation and scaling. A JAVA based query engine supporting query-by-example is built to retrieve images by color and shape. The retrieval performance is studied and compared with a region-based shape indexing scheme.