Dominant colour descriptor with spatial information for content-based image retrieval

An important problem in colour Content-based Image Retrieval (CBIR) is the lack of an effective way to represent both the colour and spatial information of an image. In order to solve this problem, a new dominant colour descriptor that employs spatial information of image is proposed. A maximum of t...

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Main Authors: Mustaffa, Mas Rina, Ahmad, Fatimah, O. K. Rahmat, Rahmita Wirza, Mahmod, Ramlan
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2008
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/47717/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/47717/1/Dominant%20colour%20descriptor%20with%20spatial%20information%20for%20content-based%20image%20retrieval.pdf
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author Mustaffa, Mas Rina
Ahmad, Fatimah
O. K. Rahmat, Rahmita Wirza
Mahmod, Ramlan
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Ahmad, Fatimah
O. K. Rahmat, Rahmita Wirza
Mahmod, Ramlan
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description An important problem in colour Content-based Image Retrieval (CBIR) is the lack of an effective way to represent both the colour and spatial information of an image. In order to solve this problem, a new dominant colour descriptor that employs spatial information of image is proposed. A maximum of three dominant colour regions in an image together with their respective coordinates of the Minimum-Bounding Rectangle (MBR) are first extracted using the Colour-based Dominant Region segmentation. The Improved Sub-block technique is then used to determine the location of the dominant colour regions by taking into consideration the total horizontal and vertical distances of a region at each location where it overlaps. A Query-by-Example CBIR system implementing the colour-spatial technique is developed. Experimental studies on an image database consisting of 900 images are conducted. From the experiments, it is evident that retrieval effectiveness has significantly improved by 85.86%.
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spelling upm-477172019-05-28T07:36:29Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/47717/ Dominant colour descriptor with spatial information for content-based image retrieval Mustaffa, Mas Rina Ahmad, Fatimah O. K. Rahmat, Rahmita Wirza Mahmod, Ramlan An important problem in colour Content-based Image Retrieval (CBIR) is the lack of an effective way to represent both the colour and spatial information of an image. In order to solve this problem, a new dominant colour descriptor that employs spatial information of image is proposed. A maximum of three dominant colour regions in an image together with their respective coordinates of the Minimum-Bounding Rectangle (MBR) are first extracted using the Colour-based Dominant Region segmentation. The Improved Sub-block technique is then used to determine the location of the dominant colour regions by taking into consideration the total horizontal and vertical distances of a region at each location where it overlaps. A Query-by-Example CBIR system implementing the colour-spatial technique is developed. Experimental studies on an image database consisting of 900 images are conducted. From the experiments, it is evident that retrieval effectiveness has significantly improved by 85.86%. IEEE 2008 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/47717/1/Dominant%20colour%20descriptor%20with%20spatial%20information%20for%20content-based%20image%20retrieval.pdf Mustaffa, Mas Rina and Ahmad, Fatimah and O. K. Rahmat, Rahmita Wirza and Mahmod, Ramlan (2008) Dominant colour descriptor with spatial information for content-based image retrieval. In: 3rd International Symposium on Information Technology (ITSim'08), 26-28 Aug. 2008, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. . 10.1109/ITSIM.2008.4631995
spellingShingle Mustaffa, Mas Rina
Ahmad, Fatimah
O. K. Rahmat, Rahmita Wirza
Mahmod, Ramlan
Dominant colour descriptor with spatial information for content-based image retrieval
title Dominant colour descriptor with spatial information for content-based image retrieval
title_full Dominant colour descriptor with spatial information for content-based image retrieval
title_fullStr Dominant colour descriptor with spatial information for content-based image retrieval
title_full_unstemmed Dominant colour descriptor with spatial information for content-based image retrieval
title_short Dominant colour descriptor with spatial information for content-based image retrieval
title_sort dominant colour descriptor with spatial information for content-based image retrieval
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/47717/
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http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/47717/1/Dominant%20colour%20descriptor%20with%20spatial%20information%20for%20content-based%20image%20retrieval.pdf