Renato O. Stehling
ABSTRACT
Color is a commonly used feature for realizing content-based image retrieval (CBIR). Towards this goal, this paper presents a new approach for CBIR which is based on well known and widely used color histograms. Contrasting to previous approaches, such as using a single color histogram for the whole image, or local color histograms for a fixed number of image cells, the one we propose (named Color Shape) uses a variable number of histograms, depending only on the actual number of colors present in the image. Our experiments using a large set of heterogeneous images and pre-defined query/answer sets show that the Color Shape approach offers good retrieval quality with relatively low space overhead, outperforming previous approaches.
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- On “shapes” of colors for content-based image retrieval
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