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A Color-Based Image Retrieval Method Using Color Distribution and Common Bitmap

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Image retrieval has emerged as an important problem in multimedia database management. This paper uses the color distribution, the mean value and the standard deviation, of an image as global information for image retrieval. Furthermore, this paper uses the common bitmap to represent the local characteristics of the image. The performance of the method is tested on three different image databases consisting of 410, 235, and 10,235 images. The third database has been partitioned into 10 categories for exploring the category retrieval ability. According to the experimental results, we find that the proposed method can effectively retrieve more similar images than other methods and the category ability is also higher than others. In addition, the total memory space for saving the image features of the proposed method is less than other methods.

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  1. Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University, Taichung, 40724, Taiwan, R.O.C.

    Chin-Chen Chang

  2. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, 621, Taiwan, R.O.C.

    Chin-Chen Chang & Tzu-Chuen Lu

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, San 31, Hyoja-dong, Nam-gu, 790-784, Pohang, Korea

    Gary Geunbae Lee

  2. Computer and Communication Media Research, NEC Corp., Miyazaki 4-1-1, Miyamae-ku, 216-8555, Kawasaki, Japan

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  3. Human-Computer Communications Laboratory, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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  4. School of Engineering, Information and Communications University, 119, Munjiro, Yuseong-gu, 305-732, Daejeon, Korea

    Sung Hyon Myaeng

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Chang, CC., Lu, TC. (2005). A Color-Based Image Retrieval Method Using Color Distribution and Common Bitmap. In: Lee, G.G., Yamada, A., Meng, H., Myaeng, S.H. (eds) Information Retrieval Technology. AIRS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3689. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11562382_5

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