Semi-Subsampled Contourlet Retrieval Algorithm Using Three Statistical Features

Abstract:

In order to improve the retrieval rate of contourlet transform retrieval system, a semi-subsampled contourlet transform based texture image retrieval system was proposed. In the system, the contourlet transform was constructed by non-subsampled Laplacian pyramid cascaded by critical subsampled directional filter banks, sub-bands standard deviation, absolute mean energy and kurtosis in semi-subsampled contourlet domain are cascaded to form feature vectors, and the similarity metric is Canberra distance. Experimental results on 109 brodatz texture images show that using the three cascaded features can lead to a higher retrieval rate than the combination of standard deviation and absolute mean which is most commonly used today under same dimension of feature vectors. Semi-subsampled contourlet transform based image retrieval system is superior to those of the original contourlet transform, non-subsampled contourlet system under the same system structure with same length of feature vectors, retrieval time and memory needed, decomposition structure parameters can also make significant effects on retrieval rates, especially scale number.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 433-440)
• Pages: 3117-3123
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.433-440.3117
• Online since: January 2012
• Authors: Yu Xi Liu, Xin Wu Chen
• Keywords: Absolute Mean Energy, Content Based Image Retrieval, Contourlet-S Transform, Kurtosis, Standard Deviation, Texture Image

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