Augmented image histogram for image and video similarity search

Yu Chen; Edward K. Wong

doi:10.1117/12.333872

17 December 1998 Augmented image histogram for image and video similarity search

Yu Chen, Edward K. Wong

Proceedings Volume 3656, Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases VII; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.333872
Event: Electronic Imaging '99, 1999, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Image histogram is an image feature widely used in content- based image retrieval and video segmentation. It is simple to compute, yet very effective as a feature in detecting image-to-image similarity, or frame-to-frame dissimilarity. While the image histogram captures the global distribution of different intensities or colors well, it does not contain any information about the spatial distribution of pixels. In this paper, we propose to incorporate spatial information into the image histogram, by computing features from the spatial distance between pixels, belonging to the same intensity or color. In addition to the frequency, count of the intensity or color, the mean, variance, and entropy of the distances are computed to form an augmented image histogram. Using the new feature, we performed experiments on a set of color images and a color video sequence. Experimental results demonstrate that the augmented image histogram performs significantly better than the conventional color histogram, both in the image retrieval and video shot segmentation.

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Yu Chen and Edward K. Wong "Augmented image histogram for image and video similarity search", Proc. SPIE 3656, Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases VII, (17 December 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.333872

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