Content-based image retrieval using wavelet-based salient points

Qi Tian; Nicu Sebe; Michael S. Lew; E. Loupias; Thomas S. Huang

doi:10.1117/12.410953

1 January 2001 Content-based image retrieval using wavelet-based salient points

Qi Tian, Nicu Sebe, Michael S. Lew, E. Loupias, Thomas S. Huang

Proceedings Volume 4315, Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases 2001; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.410953
Event: Photonics West 2001 - Electronic Imaging, 2001, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Content-based image retrieval has become one of the most active research areas in the past few years. Most of the attention from the research has been focused on indexing techniques based on global feature distributions. However, these global distributions have limited discriminating power because they are unable to capture local image information. Applying global Gabor texture features greatly improves the retrieval accuracy. But they are computationally complex. In this paper, we present a wavelet-based salient point extraction algorithm. We show that extracting the color and texture information in the locations given by these points provides significantly improved results in terms of retrieval accuracy, computational complexity and storage space of feature vectors as compared to the global feature approaches.

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Qi Tian, Nicu Sebe, Michael S. Lew, E. Loupias, and Thomas S. Huang "Content-based image retrieval using wavelet-based salient points", Proc. SPIE 4315, Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases 2001, (1 January 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.410953

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