Image retrieval based on saliency weighted color and texture
Baojiang Zhong · Journal of Shandong University · 2010
The term 'saliency' which indicates the visual importance of pixels in an image has a significant effect in content-based image retrieval.A new image retrieval method was presented by exploring the saliency-weighted image features of color and texture,which did not require to segment those salient regions from images,but only to weigh the original features of color and texture by saliency of pixels.In such a way,the color and texture features of salient regions were naturally enhanced.Four popular saliency maps on images were tested and the experimental results showed the effectiveness of our method with higher retrieval accuracy.