Image retrieval based on ASIFT features in a Hadoop clustered system

Abstract

For image matching, the scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) algorithm is a commonly used one. They are invariant to image rotation, scale zooming, and partially invariant to change in illumination and 3D camera viewpoint. Affine SIFT (ASIFT) is an extension of SIFT, which solves the problem when images are captured at different angles. However, ASIFT has higher computational complexity than SIFT, due to a huge amount of features in the images. Therefore, in this study, a Hadoop-based image retrieval system is proposed to solve the ASIFT shortcomings of high computation by the MapReduce technology. The system uses a combination of the Bag-of-Words method and support vector machine. Finally, the experimental results verify that the proposed method is more effective than the other state-of-the-art methods for a variety of datasets.