Low-dimensional superpixel descriptor and its application in visual correspondence estimation

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.

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

Co-occurrence of adjacent sparse local ternary patterns: A feature descriptor for texture and face image retrieval

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

A new scene classification method is proposed based on the combination of local Gabor features with a spatial pyramid matching model. First, new local Gabor feature descriptors are extracted from dense sampling patches of scene images. These local feature descriptors are embedded into a bag-of-visual-words (BOVW) model, which is combined with a spatial pyramid matching framework. The new local Gabor feature descriptors have sufficient discrimination abilities for dense regions of scene images. Then the efficient feature vectors of scene images can be obtained byK-means clustering method and visual word statistics. Second, in order to decrease classification time and improve accuracy, an improved kernel principal component analysis (KPCA) method is applied to reduce the dimensionality of pyramid histogram of visual words (PHOW). The principal components with the bigger interclass separability are retained in feature vectors, which are used for scene classification by the linear support vector machine (SVM) method. The proposed method is evaluated on three commonly used scene datasets. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the method.

This research proposed the identification of chicken freshness level based on its color and texture features. Color Features used are the RGB (Red, Green, and Blue) and HSV (Hue, Saturation, Value) channel histogram value. texture features used are GLCM (Grey Level Co-Occurrence Matrix), Gabor kernel, and HOG (Histogram of Oriented Gradients). The freshness level of a chicken meat is categorized into three labels, fresh (0-4 hours after slaughtered), medium-fresh (4-6 hours after slaughtered), and not-fresh (more than 6 hours after slaughtered). The experiments will identify the freshness using several classification methods and different camera resolution and magnification. The highest classification accuracy using SVM (Support Vector Machines) achieves 58,33% with a smartphone camera, 98% with a webcam camera, and 79.1% with a 200 magnification digital microscope. From the experiment results, we can conclude that using webcam camera with normal resolution have better classification accuracy compared with a 200 magnification digital microscope or standard smartphone camera. It is also shown that SVM is superior compared with other methods tested in this experiments which are Decision Tree and Naive Bayes.

We address the problem of localizing objects using color, texture and shape. Given a handrawn sketch for querying an object shape, and its color and texture, the algorithm automatically searches the database images for objects which meet the query attributes. The database images do not need to be presegmented or annotated. The proposed algorithm operates in two stages. In the first stage, we use local texture and color features to find a small number of candidate images, and identify regions in the candidate images which share similar texture and color as the query example. To speed up the processing, the texture and color features are directly extracted from the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) compressed domain. In the second stage, we use a deformable template matching method to match the query shape to the image edges at the locations which possess the desired texture and color attributes. This algorithm is different from the other content-based image retrieval algorithms in that: (i) no presegmentation of the database images is needed, and (ii) the color and texture features are directly extracted from the compressed images. Experimental results show that substantial computational savings can be achieved utilizing multiple image cues.

Object localization using color, texture and shape

Fusing convolutional neural network features with hand-crafted features for osteoporosis diagnoses

Plants are an inevitable part of ecosystem. Tulsi leaves play a major role in plant species. There exists different varieties of tulsi leaves mainly Rama tulsi, Krishna tulsi, Vana tulsi, Kapoor tulsi etc. This paper proposes a system for identifying and classifying different types of tulsi from its leaf images by analyzing color and texture. Rama tulsi, Krishna tulsi and ordinary tulsi are the three varieties of tulsi leaves used for classification. Initially, a dataset is formed from the images of leaves. The feature values of these images are computed and it becomes the training data for the system. When a test image is scanned its color and texture features are extracted. Using K nearest neighborhood algorithm the extracted features are compared with the training data to display category of the leaf. Texture features are obtained using Gray Level Co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) whereas color features are acquired using color moments. Fusions of these techniques are used in this paper.

Plant disease is main reason of agricultural crops production losses. Leaf disease in plant occurs due to fungai, virus and bacterias. Image contains various important features which is used in classification. In this paper author initially detect disease then classify disease using extracted features. It takes five diseased leaves (Black rot, Black Measles, Leaf blight, Septoria leaf spot, Bacterial spot) and healthy leaf images then identify leaf is diseased or healthy then if leaf is diseased then classify type of disease. Color features mean, standard deviation, skewness and kurtosis computed then Region based shape feature calculated to identify the size of spots. Texture feature calculated using gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) which identifies texture of image using distance and 45° angle variation in GLCM. Extracted features sent to trained feed forward neural network and classify diseased with color, shape and texture feature individually and combination of all features then observe that combination of color, shape and texture feature improve the performance of classification accuracy.

This paper proposes to improve the classification accuracy of the leaf images by extracting texture and statistical features by utilizing the presence of striking features on the dorsal and ventral sides of the leaves, which on other types of objects may not be that prominent. The texture features have been extracted from dorsal, ventral and a combination of dorsal-ventral sides of leaf images using Gray level co-occurrence matrix. In addition to this, this work also uses certain general statistical features for discriminating them into various classes. The feature selection work has been performed separately for the dorsal, ventral and combined data sets (for both texture and statistical features) using the most common feature selection algorithms. After selecting the relevant features, the classification has been done using the classification algorithms: K-Nearest Neighbor, J48, Naive Bayes, Partial Least Square (PLS), Classification and Regression Tree (CART), Classification Tree(CT). The classification accuracy has been calculated and compared to find which side of the leaf image (dorsal or ventral) gives better results with which type of features(texture or statistical). This study reveals that the ventral leaf features can be another alternative in discriminating the leaf images into various classes.

Image analysis-based classification of pigmentation patterns in fish: A case study of pseudo-albinism in Senegalese sole

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.

Currently, the reported image hashing schemes cannot perform satisfactorily in some aspects, such as rotation robustness. To this end, a perceptual color image hashing scheme is proposed. First, the original image is normalized and smoothed by Gaussian low-pass filter. The obtained secondary image is divided into a series of ring-ribbons with different radii and the same number of pixels. Then, textural and color features are extracted in local and global manners. Specifically, local textural features are extracted on luminance values of the ring-ribbons using quadtree decomposition, and global textural features are extracted by gray level co-occurrence matrix. Local color features of significant corner points are extracted on outer boundaries of ring-ribbons through color vector angles, and global color features are extracted by low-order moments. The extracted features are concatenated after quantization and permutation to generate the final hash. Receiver operating characteristic curves verified the effectiveness of our scheme, including robustness, discrimination, and security, which can be effectively applied in content authentication and tampering detection.