A novel method for image retrieval based on structure elements' descriptor

作者：Wang Xingyuan^*; Wang Zongyu

来源：Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 2013, 24(1): 63-74.

DOI：10.1016/j.jvcir.2012.10.003

• Texture descriptor
• Color descriptor
• Quantization color space
• Content based image retrieval
• Structure elements' descriptor
• Structure elements' histogram
• Texton detection
• HSV color space

In this paper, structure elements' descriptor (SED) - a novel texture descriptor, is proposed. SED can effectively describe images and represent image local features. Moreover, SED can extract and describe color and texture features. The image structure elements' histogram (SEH) is computed by SED, and HSV color space is used (it has been quantized to 72 bins). SEH integrates the advantages of both statistical and structural texture description methods, and it can represent the spatial correlation of color and texture. The results demonstrate that the method has a better performance than other image retrieval methods in the experiments.

• 出版日期2013-1
• 单位大连理工大学