Invariant salient regions based image retrieval under viewpoint and illumination variations

Shao, Ling and Brady, Michael (2006) Invariant salient regions based image retrieval under viewpoint and illumination variations. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 17 (6). pp. 1256-1272. ISSN 1047-3203

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a novel image retrieval technique based on salient regions that are invariant under viewpoint and illumination variations. The salient regions are detected according to local entropy and scale selection. The detected regions have very high repeatability under various viewpoint and illumination changes. We apply the invariant region detector on content-based image retrieval applications. The detected regions are the most informative ones, hence are potentially more effective for image indexing and retrieval. Generalized colour moment invariants are used as the invariant descriptor for characterizing the selected salient regions under geometric and photometric changes. Two datasets are used for experiments: one for evaluating the invariance of the algorithm under geometric and photometric transformations; the other for testing the algorithm on object category retrieval. The experimental results show that our proposed region detector is very efficient and effective on retrieving a variety of cluttered images with partial occlusion.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Salient region detection; Content-based image retrieval; Moment invariants; Object category retrieval
Subjects:	G400 Computer Science
Department:	Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Computer and Information Sciences
Depositing User:	Paul Burns
Date Deposited:	15 Jun 2015 13:06
Last Modified:	12 Oct 2019 22:50
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/22904

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