Image Retrieval Algorithm Based on Color Autocorrelogram and Mutual Information
Shen Xin-nin · Jisuanji gongcheng · 2014
Color is an important visual feature. Color Correlogram(CC) algorithm is commonly used in the color based image retrieval as a feature descriptor, but most of the existing methods based on CC have problems of high computational complexity and low retrieval accuracy. Aiming at this problem, this paper proposes an image retrieval algorithm based on color autocorrelogram and mutual information. It presents a novel color feature descriptor, namely Color Mutual Information(CMI). The new color feature vector which describes the global and spatial distribution relation among different colors is obtained by calculating the average mutual information between one color and all the colors around it in the CC feature matrix, thus reducing the computational complexity. Inter-feature normalization is applied in the combination of CMI and color autocorrelogram to enhance the retrieval accuracy. Experimental result shows that this integrated method can reduce the computational complexity, improves real-time response speed and retrieval accuracy.