Paper:
Language: English:

Landscape Image Retrieval with Query by Sketch and Icon

Takahiro Hayashi, Atsushi Ishikawa, and Rikio Onai

The University of Electro-Communications, 1-5-1 Chofugaoka, Chofu, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan

Received: April 11, 2005

Accepted: May 10, 2006

Keywords: image retrieval, query for image retrieval, principal component analysis, pattern recognition

Journal ref: Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, Vol.11, No.1 pp. 61-70, 2007

Abstract

This paper reports a new method for retrieving landscape images using a sketch and icons as a query. Based on the proposal, first, a user sketches lines expressing contours of landscape elements such as mountains and forests and attaches icons expressing landscape elements to the sketch. Second, whether individual images in a database match with the layout expressed by the sketch and icons is judged with principal component analysis and pattern recognition. From experimental results, we have confirmed that the proportion of the correct images ranked within top 10 of retrieval results is 80% in an average.

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