Applying neural network to combining the heterogeneous features in content-based image retrieval

HyoungGu K. Lee; Suk In Yoo

doi:10.1117/12.420929

4 April 2001 Applying neural network to combining the heterogeneous features in content-based image retrieval

HyoungGu K. Lee, Suk In Yoo

Proceedings Volume 4305, Applications of Artificial Neural Networks in Image Processing VI; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.420929
Event: Photonics West 2001 - Electronic Imaging, 2001, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Content of an image can be expressed in terms of different features such as color, texture, shape, or text annotations. Retrieval based on these features can be various by the way how to combine the feature values. Most of the existing approaches assume a linear relationship between different features, and also require the user to directly assign weights to features. In particular, as the number of feature classes increases, intuition about how to pick relative weights among features is lost. While this linear combining approach establishes the basis of content-based image retrieval (CBIR), the usefulness of such systems was limited due to the difficulty in representing human perception subjectivity. In this paper, we introduce a Neural Network- based Image Retrieval system, a human-computer interaction approach to CBIR using Radial Basis Function network. This approach determines nonlinear relationship between features so that more accurate similarity comparison between images can be supported and allows the user to submit a coarse initial query and continuously refine his information need via relevance feedback. The experimental results show that the proposed approach has the superior retrieval performance than the existing approaches such as linearly combining approach, the rank-based method, and the BackPropagation- based method.

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HyoungGu K. Lee and Suk In Yoo "Applying neural network to combining the heterogeneous features in content-based image retrieval", Proc. SPIE 4305, Applications of Artificial Neural Networks in Image Processing VI, (4 April 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.420929

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