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GVIP GVIP-05 ICGST

Image Retrieval using Local Colour and Texture Features

Ibrahim El-Henawy (1), Mohamed Eisa (2), A. E. Elalfi (3) , Hans Burkhardt (2)

(1) Zagazig university, Faculty of Computer & Information

(2) Institute of Computer Science, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

(3) Mansoura university, Faculty of Specific Education

Abstract:
Colour histograms proved to be successful in automatic image retrieval; however, their draw back is that all structural information is lost. Therefore Siggelkow et al. extended the colour histogram approach by features that take into account the relations within a local pixel neighbourhood. They extracted features that are invariant with respect to translation and rotation by integrating nonlinear functions over the group of Euclidean motion. Gabor wavelets proved to be very useful texture analysis. In this paper we present an image retrieval method based on nonlinear monomial kernel function and Gabor filters. Colour features are found by calculating the 3D colour histogram after applying the monomial kernel function on the image. Texture features are found by calculating the mean and standard deviation of the Gabor filtered image. Experimental results are shown and discussed.

Key words: Image Retrieval, Knowledge Discovery, Data Mining, Colour Histograms, Intelligent Agent

@ARTICLE{P1150442010,

AUTHOR = {Ibrahim El-Henawy and Mohamed Eisa and A. E. Elalfi and Hans Burkhardt},

TITLE = {Image Retrieval using Local Colour and Texture Features },

JOURNAL = {ICGST International Journal on Graphics, Vision and Image Processing},

YEAR = {2005},

MONTH={May},

VOLUME = {SI1}

}

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