原型基于颜色的图像检索与MATLAB..doc

Prototyping Color-based Image Retrieval with MATLAB? Petteri Kerminen1, Moncef Gabbouj2 1Tampere University of Technology, Pori, Finland 2Tampere University of Technology, Signal Processing Laboratory, Tampere, Finland Abstract Content-based retrieval of (image) databases has become more popular than before. Algorithm develop-ment for this purpose requires testing/simulation tools,but there are no suitable commercial tools on the market. A simulation environment for retrieving images from database according histogram similarities is presented in this paper. This environment allows the use of different color spaces and numbers of bins. The algorithms are implemented with MATLAB. Each color system has its own m-files. The phases of the software building process are pre-sented from system design to graphical user interface (GUI). The functionality is described with snapshots of GUI. 1. Introduction Nowadays there are thousands or hundreds of thousands of digital images in an image database. If the user wants to find a suitable image for his/her purposes, he/she has to go through the database until the correct image has been found or use a reference book or some “intelligent” program. Video on demand (VoD) services also requires an intelligent search system for end-users. VoD systems’ search methods differ slightly from image database’s methods. A reference book is a suitable option, if the images are arranged with a useful method, for example: 1)categories: animals, flags, etc, 2) names (requires a good naming technique) or 3) dates. An experienced user can use these systems as well as textual searches (keywords have to be inserted in a database) efficiently. There are situations when a multi-language system has to be used. There a language independent search system’s best properties can be utilized. A tool which is based on the images’ properties can be made language independent. These properties can be for example color, shape, texture, spatial loc