A new approach to color person image indexing and retrieval

  • Authors:
  • Damien Muselet;Ludovic Macaire;Jack-Gérard Postaire

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratoire d'Automatique I3 D, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, Cité Scientifique - Bâtiment P2 - 59655, Villeneuve d'Ascq - FRANCE;Laboratoire d'Automatique I3 D, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, Cité Scientifique - Bâtiment P2 - 59655, Villeneuve d'Ascq - FRANCE;Laboratoire d'Automatique I3 D, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, Cité Scientifique - Bâtiment P2 - 59655, Villeneuve d'Ascq - FRANCE

  • Venue:
  • Machine Graphics & Vision International Journal - Special issue on latest results in colour image processing and applications
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In the context of image indexing for the purpose of retrieval , colored object recognition methods tend to fail when the illumination of the objects varies from an image to another. A new approach to indexing images of persons is proposed, which copes with the variations of the lighting conditions. We assume that illumination changes can be described using a simple linear transform. For comparing two images, we transform the colors of the target one according to the colors of the query one by means of an original color histogram specification based on color invariant evaluation. For the retrieval purpose, we evaluate invariant color signatures of the query image and the transformed target image through the use of color co-occurrence matrices. Tests on real images are very encouraging, with substantially better results than those obtained with other well-established indexing and retrieval schemes.