In this paper, we are going to study a content-based image retrieval system using the color feature. The retrieval methods consists of histogram intersection and color pairs. The color of images is extracted after changing RGB(red, green, blue) color ...
In this paper, we are going to study a content-based image retrieval system using the color feature. The retrieval methods consists of histogram intersection and color pairs. The color of images is extracted after changing RGB(red, green, blue) color space to HSI(hue, saturation, intensity) that is the most compatible color for people's feeling. Hue and Intensity histogram thresholding for each color attribute are performed to split the chromatic regions and the achromatic regions. Region growing is used to solve oversegmentation problem. It is necessary to normalize the size of image for 160×128. Each image is divided into a smaller number of cells of 32×32 pixels. Color pairs are used to represent the query during retrieval.
The average Recall/Precision of histogram intersection is 0.66/0.69. The average Recall/Precision of color pairs is 0.47/0.60. The average Recall/Precision of proposed method is 0.76/0.79. The proposed method increases the retrieval effectiveness. The results demonstrate that the proposed method has led to substantial improvement in the performance of the system.