Use of Picture Information Measure using Color Features for Image Retrieval in CBIR

Abstract

Content-Based Image Retrieval systems backups the image retrieval process using the primary characteristics of image like colour, shape, texture and spatial locations clubbed with the semantic approaches for better efficiency and performance. Various information measures have been proposed in order to increase the level of Retrieval. A method of picture information measures based upon the concept of the minimum number of gray level changes to convert a picture into one with a desired histogram is presented. In search of finding a new perspective an integrated approach of Picture Information Measure (PIM) employed with the primitive visual feature color. The retrieval results obtained by applying color histogram (CH) on PIM (PIM of Red Green and Blue and there integrated variation) + Color Moment to a 1000 image database demonstrated significant improvement in retrieval effectively.