Efficient Block-based Matching for Content-based Image Retrieval using Color Features
W. S. H. M. W. Ahmad, Mohammad Faizal Ahmad Fauzi, Rajasvaran Logeswaran, Wan Mimi Diyana Wan Zaki · 2011
This paper presents a simple but reliable block-based approach to address region-based image retrieval using color features. The proposed algorithm integrates a block-based localization technique, which offers flexible feature vector property for block matching purpose, together with several histogram-based color features, namely the color histogram, color coherence vector and color co-occurrence histogram. The algorithm was tested on 2250 images of small objects from the Amsterdam Library of Object Images (ALOI) database, quantitatively and qualitatively and promising results are reported.