Foreground detection for content-based image retrieval

Xiao Dong Wang; Xiao Chen; Shan Shan Qu

doi:10.1117/12.2010681

13 March 2013 Foreground detection for content-based image retrieval

Xiao Dong Wang, Xiao Chen, Shan Shan Qu

Proceedings Volume 8783, Fifth International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV 2012): Computer Vision, Image Analysis and Processing; 878304 (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2010681
Event: Fifth International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV 12), 2012, Wuhan, China

Abstract

Content-based image retrieval is an important task in many practical applications. All the existing algorithms can be divided into two categories, the global methods and the local methods. These methods both have their own drawbacks. Every kind of image property equally contributes to image retrieval applications in global methods, and only some selected ones are used in local methods. Generally, the global methods can not fully represent the specific properties of user interest, and many image properties are lost in local methods. In this paper, a novel method has been proposed, in which image properties are assigned with different weights, denoting the importance of the property in image retrieval application. The represented method simulates human perception of image foreground, and can make a trade-off between global methods and local methods. Experiments show that this method can improve image retrieval performance, without the lost of simplicity and compactness.

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Xiao Dong Wang, Xiao Chen, and Shan Shan Qu "Foreground detection for content-based image retrieval", Proc. SPIE 8783, Fifth International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV 2012): Computer Vision, Image Analysis and Processing, 878304 (13 March 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2010681

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