Image Retrieval Using the Fusion of Spatial Histogram and wavelet Moments
Sang Yong Seo, Nam Cheol Kim · Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea · 2001
We present an image retrieval method for improving retrieval performance by the effective fusion of spatial histogram and wavelet moments. In this method, the similarity for spatial histograms and the similarity for wavelet moment are effectively fused in the computation of the similarity between a query image and DB image. That is, the wavelet moments feature represented in multi-resolution and the spatial histogram feature robust to translation and rotation are used to improve retrieval performance. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed method, we use Brodatz texture DB, MPEG-7 T1 DB, and Corel Draw Photo DB. Experimental results show that the proposed method yields 5.3% and 13.8% better Performances for Brodatz DB, and 15.5% and 3.2% better Performances for Corel Draw Photo DB over the histogram method and the wavelet moment method, respectively.