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Image retrieval: ideas, influences, and trends of the new age
- ACM COMPUTING SURVEYS
, 2008
"... We have witnessed great interest and a wealth of promise in content-based image retrieval as an emerging technology. While the last decade laid foundation to such promise, it also paved the way for a large number of new techniques and systems, got many new people involved, and triggered stronger ass ..."
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We have witnessed great interest and a wealth of promise in content-based image retrieval as an emerging technology. While the last decade laid foundation to such promise, it also paved the way for a large number of new techniques and systems, got many new people involved, and triggered stronger association of weakly related fields. In this article, we survey almost 300 key theoretical and empirical contributions in the current decade related to image retrieval and automatic image annotation, and in the process discuss the spawning of related subfields. We also discuss significant challenges involved in the adaptation of existing image retrieval techniques to build systems that can be useful in the real world. In retrospect of what has been achieved so far, we also conjecture what the future may hold for image retrieval research.
Content-based multimedia information retrieval: State of the art and challenges
- ACM Trans. Multimedia Comput. Commun. Appl
, 2006
"... Extending beyond the boundaries of science, art, and culture, content-based multimedia information retrieval provides new paradigms and methods for searching through the myriad variety of media all over the world. This survey reviews 100+ recent articles on content-based multimedia information retri ..."
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Extending beyond the boundaries of science, art, and culture, content-based multimedia information retrieval provides new paradigms and methods for searching through the myriad variety of media all over the world. This survey reviews 100+ recent articles on content-based multimedia information retrieval and discusses their role in current research directions which include browsing and search paradigms, user studies, affective computing, learning, semantic queries, new features and media types, high performance indexing, and evaluation techniques. Based on the current state of the art, we discuss the major challenges for the future.
Content-based image retrieval: approaches and trends of the new age
- In Proceedings ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval
, 2005
"... The last decade has witnessed great interest in research on content-based image retrieval. This has paved the way for a large number of new techniques and systems, and a growing interest in associated fields to support such systems. Likewise, digital imagery has expanded its horizon in many directio ..."
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Cited by 33 (2 self)
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The last decade has witnessed great interest in research on content-based image retrieval. This has paved the way for a large number of new techniques and systems, and a growing interest in associated fields to support such systems. Likewise, digital imagery has expanded its horizon in many directions, resulting in an explosion in the volume of image data required to be organized. In this paper, we discuss some of the key contributions in the current decade related to image retrieval and automated image annotation, spanning 120 references. We also discuss some of the key challenges involved in the adaptation of existing image retrieval techniques to build useful systems that can handle real-world data. We conclude with a study on the trends in volume and impact of publications in the field with respect to venues/journals and sub-topics.
Evaluation of Salient Point Techniques
, 2002
"... In image retrieval, global features related to color or texture are commonly used to describe the image content. The probleln with this approach is that these global features cannot capture all parts of the image having different characteristics. Therefore, local computation of image information ..."
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In image retrieval, global features related to color or texture are commonly used to describe the image content. The probleln with this approach is that these global features cannot capture all parts of the image having different characteristics. Therefore, local computation of image information is necessary. By using salient points to represent local information, more discriminative features can be computed. In this paper we compare a wavelet-based salient point extraction algorithm with two corner detectors using the criteria: repeatability rate and information content. We also show that extracting color and texture information in the locations given by onr salient points provides significantly improved results in terms of retrieval accuracy, computational complexity, and storage space of feature vectors as compared to global feature approaches.
Focus-of-attention from local color symmetries
- IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
, 2004
"... Abstract—In this paper, a continuous valued measure for local color symmetry is introduced. The new algorithm is an extension of the successful gray value-based symmetry map proposed by Reisfeld et al. The use of color facilitates the detection of focus points (FPs) on objects that are difficult to ..."
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Abstract—In this paper, a continuous valued measure for local color symmetry is introduced. The new algorithm is an extension of the successful gray value-based symmetry map proposed by Reisfeld et al. The use of color facilitates the detection of focus points (FPs) on objects that are difficult to detect using gray-value contrast only. The detection of FPs is aimed at guiding the attention of an object recognition system; therefore, FPs have to fulfill three major requirements: stability, distinctiveness, and usability. The proposed algorithm is evaluated for these criteria and compared with the gray value-based symmetry measure and two other methods from the literature. Stability is tested against noise, object rotation, and variations of lighting. As a measure for the distinctiveness of FPs, the principal components of FP-centered windows are compared with those of windows at randomly chosen points on a large database of natural images. Finally, usability is evaluated in the context of an object recognition task. Index Terms—Focus-of-attention, color vision, symmetry, saliency maps, object recognition. æ 1
Video Object Tracking Based On Extended Active Shape Models With Color Information
- University of Poitiers
, 2002
"... image sequences are complex tasks of increa sing importance to many applications. For the tracking of such objects in a video sequence e.g. "active shape models" can be applied. The existing active shape models are usually based on intensity information and they do not consider color information. Ho ..."
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image sequences are complex tasks of increa sing importance to many applications. For the tracking of such objects in a video sequence e.g. "active shape models" can be applied. The existing active shape models are usually based on intensity information and they do not consider color information. However, active shape models are sensitive to outliers, especially in the case of partial object occlusions. In this paper, we present an extension of the active shape model for color images and we examine to what extent the use of color information can contribute to the solution of the outlier problem.
M.: Color active shape models for tracking non-rigid objects
- Pattern Recognition Letters
, 2003
"... Active shape models can be applied to tracking non-rigid objects in video image sequences. Traditionally these models do not include color information in their formulation. In this paper, we present a hierarchical realization of an enhanced active shape model for color video tracking and we study th ..."
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Active shape models can be applied to tracking non-rigid objects in video image sequences. Traditionally these models do not include color information in their formulation. In this paper, we present a hierarchical realization of an enhanced active shape model for color video tracking and we study the performance of both hierarchical and nonhierarchical implementations in the RGB, YUV, and HSI color spaces.
Combining spatial and colour information for content based image retrieval
- Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Special Issue on Colour for Image Indexing and Retrieval
, 2004
"... Colour is one of the most important features in content based image retrieval. However, colour is rarely used as a feature that codes local spatial information, except for colour texture. This paper presents an approach to represent spatial colour distributions using local principal component analys ..."
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Colour is one of the most important features in content based image retrieval. However, colour is rarely used as a feature that codes local spatial information, except for colour texture. This paper presents an approach to represent spatial colour distributions using local principal component analysis (PCA). The representation is based on image windows which are selected by two complementary data driven attentive mechanisms: A symmetry based saliency map and an edge and corner detector. The eigenvectors obtained from local PCA of the selected windows form colour patterns that capture both low and high spatial frequencies, so they are well suited for shape as well as texture representation. Projections of the windows selected from the image database to the local PCs serve as a compact representation for the search database. Queries are formulated by specifying windows within query images. System feedback makes both the search process and the results comprehensible for the user.
Combining color and shape information for illumination-viewpoint invariant object recognition
- IEEE TRANS. ON IMAGE PROCESSING
, 2006
"... In this paper, we propose a new scheme that merges color- and shape-invariant information for object recognition. To obtain robustness against photometric changes, color-invariant derivatives are computed first. Color invariance is an important aspect of any object recognition scheme, as color chan ..."
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In this paper, we propose a new scheme that merges color- and shape-invariant information for object recognition. To obtain robustness against photometric changes, color-invariant derivatives are computed first. Color invariance is an important aspect of any object recognition scheme, as color changes considerably with the variation in illumination, object pose, and camera viewpoint. These color invariant derivatives are then used to obtain similarity invariant shape descriptors. Shape invariance is equally important as, under a change in camera viewpoint and object pose, the shape of a rigid object undergoes a perspective projection on the image plane. Then, the color and shape invariants are combined in a multidimensional color-shape context which is subsequently used as an index. As the indexing scheme makes use of a color-shape invariant context, it provides a high-discriminative information cue robust against varying imaging conditions. The matching function of the color-shape context allows for fast recognition, even in the presence of object occlusion and cluttering. From the experimental results, it is shown that the method recognizes rigid objects with high accuracy in 3-D complex scenes and is robust against changing illumination, camera viewpoint, object pose, and noise.
Localized Content Based Image Retrieval
- IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE, SPECIAL ISSUE, NOVEMBER 2008
, 2008
"... We define localized content-based image retrieval as a CBIR task where the user is only interested in a portion of the image, and the rest of the image is irrelevant. In this paper we present a localized CBIR system, ACCIO! , that uses labeled images in conjunction with a multiple-instance learning ..."
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We define localized content-based image retrieval as a CBIR task where the user is only interested in a portion of the image, and the rest of the image is irrelevant. In this paper we present a localized CBIR system, ACCIO! , that uses labeled images in conjunction with a multiple-instance learning algorithm to first identify the desired object and weight the features accordingly, and then to rank images in the database using a similarity measure that is based upon only the relevant portions of the image. A challenge for localized CBIR is how to represent the image to capture the content. We present and compare two novel image representations, which extend traditional segmentationbased and salient point-based techniques respectively, to capture content in a localized CBIR setting.

