Combinational feature approach: Performance improvement for image processing based leaf disease classification

A robust method is proposed in this paper to retrieve digital images using combination of color, texture and shape features. The proposed method consists of three stages. Shape detection is done based on TopHat transform to detect and crop object part of the image in the first stage. The second is included a texture feature extraction algorithm using color local binary patterns (CLBP) and local variance features together. Finally, to retrieve mostly closing matching images to the query, log likelihood ratio is used as non-similarity ratio. The performance of the proposed approach is evaluated using Corel and Simplicity image sets and it compared by some of other well-known approaches in terms of precision and recall which shows the superiority of the proposed approach. Shift invariant, Low noise sensitivity, rotation invariant are some of other advantages.

Image retrieval is the process of finding images in the database that are similar to the query image by measuring how close the feature values of the query image are to other images. Image retrieval is currently dominated by approaches that combine several different representations or features. The optimal weight of each feature is needed in combining the image features such as color features, texture features, and shape features. In this study, we use a multi-layer perceptron artificial neural network (MLP) method to obtain feature weights automatically and simultaneously look for optimal weights. The color moment is used to find nine color features, Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) to find four texture features, and Hu Moment to find seven shape features totaling 20 neurons and all of these features become the input layer in our MLP network. Three neurons in output layers become the automatic weight of each feature. These weights are used to combine each feature's role in obtaining the relevant image. Euclidean Distance is used to measure similarity. The average precision values obtained using automatic feature weights are 93.94% for the synthetic dataset, 91.19% for the Coil-100 dataset, and 54.31% for the Wang dataset. These results have an average difference of 5.06% with the target so automatic feature weighting works well. This value is obtained at a hidden layer size of 11 and a learning rate of 0.1. In addition, the use of automatic feature weighting gives more accurate results compared to manual feature weighting.

In this project, we proposed a Content Based Image Retrieval (CB IR) system which is used to retrieve a relevant image from an outsized database. Textile images showed the way for the development of CB IR. It establishes the efficient combination of color, shape and texture features. Herethe textile image is given as dataset. The images in database are loaded. The resultant image is given as input to feature extraction technique which is transformation of input image into a setof features such as color, texture and shape. The texture feature of an image is taken out by using Gray levelco-occurrence matrix (GLCM). The color feature of an image is obtained by HSIcolor space. The shape feature of an imageis extorted by sobel technique. These algorithms are used to calculate the similarity between extracted features. These features are combined effectively so that the retrieval accuracy and recall rate is enhanced. The classification techniques such as Support Vector M achine (SVM) are used to classify the features of a query image by splitting the group such as color, shape and texture.Finally, the relevant images are retrievedfrom a large database and hence the efficiency of an image is plotted.The software used is MATLAB7.10 (matrix laboratory) which is built software applications

Batik is a traditional craft of designing patterned fabrics which hold high artistic value in Sri Lankan culture, where hand-painted wax patterns are coloured using specialist dyeing methods to create the finished product. This paper presents a study of vision-based feature extraction of Batik images considering colour, texture and shape features to develop a comprehensive feature descriptor of Batik motifs. Wax drawn patterns are identified from the digital images of Batik motifs to retrieve an outline of patterns demarcating the different coloured layers generated by multiple stages of dyeing. Motifs with repetitive patterns are identified using the Local Binary Pattern (LBP) as a texture feature vector. Both RGB and L*a*b* colour schemes are studied in the representation of Batik motifs. The colour description is presented using Mini Batch K-Means which out-performed the widely used K-Means clustering method. Hu Moment Invariants are used for shape feature extraction, and Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) for texture feature extraction. A comprehensive feature descriptor is developed to represent Batik designs, which could be used to recommend similar designs based on the shape and texture features of query images presented by the user.

South Central Timor (TTS) is one of the districts that has a weaving culture and also produces woven cloth in East Nusa Tenggara. The many types of woven fabric from each TTS tribe makes outsiders and even native TTS people do not recognize the typical TTS woven fabric, therefore we need a system that can help facilitate the community in recognizing the type and motif of woven fabric. In this study, digital image processing is used to identify the type of woven fabric in the TTS district using the HSV color feature extraction method, and the GLCM texture feature, and to measure the similarity of woven fabric using the Euclidean distance method. The image data of the woven fabric used is the image of woven fabric from 3 tribes of TTS district, namely the Amanatun, Amanuban, and Mollo tribes. Identification of woven fabric motifs using the K-fold cross validation test with two stages, namely the training and testing stages. The results of testing variants using 10 fold get an accuracy rate for GLCM texture features of 55%, for HSV color features of 62.5% and a combination of color and texture features of 91.67%.

Diagnosis of grape leaf diseases using automatic K-means clustering and machine learning

Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) allows to automatically extracting target images according to objective visual contents of the image itself. Representation of visual features and similarity match are important issues in CBIR. Color, texture and shape information have been the primitive image descriptors in content-based image retrieval systems. This paper presents a fast and efficient image indexing and search system based on color and texture features. The color features are represented by combines 2-D histogram and statistical moments and texture features are represented by combines the direction measure and a gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM). The detailed experimental analysis is carried out using precision and recall ondataset Wang. The time analysis is also performed to compare processing speeds of the proposed method with the existing similar best. The experimental results demonstrated that proposed method achieved a better image recognition, and the accuracy of classification based on this method has been significantly improved. The performance is measured in terms of recall and precision; also the obtained performances are compared with several state-of-the-art algorithms and showed that our algorithm is simple, fast, and efficient in terms of results and memory. Keywords: Co-occurrence Matrix, Direction Measure, 2-D Histogram, Statistical Moments, CBIR, GLCM

In CBIR techniques, image retrieval based on object-based features are more precise to retrieve appropriate relevant images. So, in this paper, a CBIR technique is proposed using extracted combined shape and color features from image object region. In this particular work, some significant statistical parameters are calculated from image object or shape region by gray-level co-occurrence matrix and simultaneously, color features are extracted from the color object using color autocorrelogram. Initially, RGB color images are transformed into YCbCr color space, and subsequently, the active contour is employed on Y-component to obtain the foreground and the background regions. Shape or object feature is located in the foreground region of Y-component and gray-level co-occurrence matrix provides some statistical parameters. We have also computed some statistical parameters from the background region to improve the image retrieval performance. Afterward, an intermediate color object image is reconstructed by combining foreground image region along with chrominance components for deriving the prominent color information. We have employed color autocorrelogram over this newly constructed intermediate image. Finally, all the computed features are combined together to form the ultimate feature vector. The proposed technique is tested over two benchmark databases, i.e., Corel-1K and GHIM-10K and we have achieved satisfactory results in object-based images.

According to the recent literature, it is pragmatic that image storage and retrieval through the World Wide Web (WWW) has made impressive progress. Practical searching for image still confronts us with present retrieval systems. A Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) system provides an efficient way of retrieving related images from image collections. In this paper we present a new technique to extract the images from the database to achieve better performance and efficiency. The novel method uses an approach, which combines texture information and modified Block Truncation Coding (BTC) method to extract the color features from the image. The whole image is divided into a fixed block of size 4 × 4, 8 × 8, 16 × 16, 32 × 32, 64 × 64, 128 × 128 and 256 × 256 non overlapped blocks. For each block, we calculated the threshold as a mean of the pixel values and the number of pixels which are lower than threshold value and upper than the threshold value are counted and mean of these lower and upper values have been taken and these two are considered as features. Now this process is repeated for the all blocks to extract the features of the image. The second step will compute the four texture features using the Gray-Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) as a statistical approach to extract energy, contrast, entropy and uniformity. We have used this modified BTC and texture features of the image to retrieve images. Finally, we have conducted experiments on a ground truth image database that has 1000 images of different categories. A different block sizes have been used to demonstrate the experimental results and compared with tabulation. From this we have observed that the performance is better and efficiency is low with smaller block sizes and vice versa with higher block sizes. So we have to choose the middle ranges of block sizes for better performance with better efficiency. As we have observed from the results that the performance of the retrieval system is improved because of combination of texture and color features. The proposed system's performance has been improved by an average precision of 2.41% and recall of 8.22% when compared to existing systems.

In content based image retrieval (CBIR) process, every image has been represented in a compact set of local visual features i.e. color, texture, and/or shape of images. This set of local visual features is known as feature vector. In the CBIR process, feature vectors of images have been used to represent or to identify similar images in adequate way. As a result, feature vector construction has always been considered as an important issue since it must reflect proper image semantics using minimal amount of data. The proposed CBIR scheme is based on the combination of color and texture features. In this work initially, we have converted the given RGB image into HSV color image. Subsequently, we have considered H (hue), S (saturation), and V (intensity) components for extraction of visual image features. The texture features have been extracted from the V component of the image using 2D dual-tree complex wavelet transform (2D DT-CWT) where it analyzes the textural patterns in six different directions i.e. ±15\(^{\circ }\), ±45\(^{\circ }\), and ±75\(^{\circ }\). At the same time, we have computed the probability histograms of H and S components of the image respectively and subsequently those are divided into non-uniform bins based on cumulative probability for extraction of color based features. So, in this work both the color and texture features have been extracted simultaneously. Finally, the obtained features have been concatenated to attain the final feature vector and same is considered in image retrieval process. We have tested the novelty and performance of the proposed work in two Corel, two objects, and, a texture image datasets. The experimental results reveal the acceptable retrieval performances for different types of datasets.

We established prediction models based on the combination of spectral and different advanced image features to improve the prediction accuracy of solid-soluble content (SSC) of apple. Eight optimal wavelengths were selected using a new variable selection method called variable combination population analysis (VCPA). Image textural features of the first three principal component score images were obtained using a gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) and a local binary pattern (LBP). Next, a random frog algorithm was developed to select optimal textural features for further analysis. A support vector regression (SVR) model based on spectral and different textural features was developed to predict the SSC of the apple. The model based on eight optimal wavelengths and nine optimal GLCM features of principal component images yielded the best result with the determination coefficient for prediction (Rp2) of 0.9193, root mean square error for prediction (RMSEP) of 0.2955, and the ratio of the standard deviation of the prediction set to the root mean square error of prediction (RPD) with a value of 3.50. These results revealed that the spectral combined with optimal GLCM features from principal component images coupled with the SVR model has the potential for prediction of the SSC of apple.

In this chapter, a content-based image retrieval technique based on the concept of region-based image retrieval has been described. This technique integrates color, texture, and shape features using local binary patterns (LBPs). In this technique, the image is divided into a fixed number of blocks and from each block LBP-based color, texture, and shape features are computed. The color and texture features are extracted using LBP histograms of quantized color image and gray-level images, respectively. Shape features are computed using the binary edge map obtained using Sobel edge detector from each block. All three features are combined to make a single completed binary region descriptor (CBRD) represented in the LBP way. To support region-based retrieval, an effective region code-based scheme is employed. In this technique, the spatial relative locations of objects are also considered to increase the retrieval accuracy.

Big data analytics involve systematic approach to find hidden patterns to help the organization grow from large volume and variety of data. In recent years big data analytics is widely used in the agricultural domain to improve yield. Viticulture (the cultivation of grapes) is one of the most lucrative farming in India. It is a subdivision of horticulture and is the study of wine growing. The demand for Indian Wine is increasing at about 27% each year since the 21st century and thus more and more ways are being developed to improve the quality and quantity of the wine products. In this paper, we focus on a specific agricultural practice as viticulture. Weather forecasting and disease detection are the two main research areas in precision viticulture. Leaf disease detection as a part of plant pathology is the key research area in this paper. It can be applied on vineyards of India where farmers are bereft of the latest technologies. Proposed system architecture comprises four modules: Data collection, data preprocessing, classification and visualization. Database module involve grape leaf dataset, consists of healthy images combined with disease leaves such as Black measles, Black rot, and Leaf blight. Models have been implemented on Apache Hadoop using map reduce programming framework. It apply feature extraction to extract various features of the live images and classification algorithm with reduced computational complexity. Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) followed by K-Nearest Neighborhood (KNN) algorithm. System also recommends the necessary steps and remedies that the viticulturists can take to assure that the grapes can be salvaged at the right time and in the right manner based on classification results. Overall system will help Indian viticulturists to improve the harvesting process. Accuracy of the model is 72% and it can be increased as a future work by including deep learning with time series grape leaf images.

This paper proposes an image retrieval system using the local colour and texture features of object regions and global colour features of the image. The object regions are roughly identified by segmenting the image into fixed partitions and finding the edge density in each partition using edge thresholding and morphological dilation. The colour and texture features of the identified regions are computed from the histograms of the quantized HSV colour space and Gray Level Co- occurrence Matrix (GLCM) respectively. A combined colour and texture feature vector is computed for each region and Euclidean distance measure is used for computing the distance between the features of the query and target image. Preliminary experimental results show that the proposed method provides better retrieving result than retrieval using some of the existing methods. Also promising results are obtained for 50% and 75% occluded query images.KeywordsContent Based Image RetrievalGLCMColour histogram

An image retrieval system was developed purposely to provide an efficient tool for a set of images from a collection of images in the large database that matches the user’s requirements in similarity evaluations such as image content similarity, edge, and colour similarity. Retrieving images based on the contents which are colour, texture, and shape is called content-based image retrieval (CBIR). This paper discusses and describes about the colour features technique for image retrieval systems. Several colour features technique and algorithms produced by the previous researcher are used to calculate the similarity between extracted features. This paper also describes about the specific technique about the colour basis features and combined features (hybrid techniques) between colour and shape features.