Approach of Using Texture and Shape for Image Retrieval
Gang Zhang, Zongmin Ma, Li Yan · IGI Global eBooks · 2013
Feature integration is one of important research contents in content-based image retrieval. Single feature extraction and description is foundation of the feature integration. Features from a single feature extraction approach are a single feature or composite features, whether integration features are more discriminative than them or not. An approach of integrating shape and texture features was presented and used to study these problems. Gabor wavelet transform with minimum information redundancy was used to extract texture features, which would be used for feature analyses. Fourier descriptor approach with brightness was used to extract shape features. Then both features were integrated in parallel by weights. Comparisons were carried out among the integration features, the texture features, and the shape features, so that discrimination of the integration features can be testified.