Title
Merged region based image retrieval.
Abstract
In Region based Image Retrieval (RBIR) methods, region matching mainly focuses on region-to-region and image-to-image methods. The former may cause loss of image information and the latter may lead to similar regions being matched repeatedly. To solve these problems, we propose a new image retrieval method based on merged regions, and feature extraction and matching are processed at the category level. Merged regions in an image belong to the same category to some extent, and are obtained by a statistical region merging and affinity propagation (SRM-AP) algorithm. For feature extraction, regional convolution mapping feature (RCMF) based on the convolutional neural networks (CNN) are extracted. RCMF is further combined with the number and distribution of regions to represent the characteristics of merged regions. Moreover, to match the merged regions according to their significance in images, an integrated category matching (ICM) method is designed. Experimental results on Corel-1000 and Caltech-256 show that the proposed method is more effective than some existing RBIR methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.jvcir.2018.07.003
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
Keywords
Field
DocType
Image retrieval (IR),Regional convolution mapping feature (RCMF),Convolution neural networks (CNN),Integrated category matching (ICM)
Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Affinity propagation,Convolution,Convolutional neural network,Image retrieval,Feature extraction,Artificial intelligence,Merge (version control),Mathematics
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
55
1047-3203
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
12
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fanjie Meng1234.93
Dalong Shan231.38
Ruixia Shi3113.64
Yang Song437953.25
Baolong Guo511.71
Weidong Cai693886.65