Designing Image Retrieval System with the Concept of Visual Keys

Manabu Serata; Yutaka Hatakeyama; Kaoru Hirota

doi:10.20965/jaciii.2006.p0136

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JACIII Vol.10 No.2 pp. 136-144

doi: 10.20965/jaciii.2006.p0136

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Designing Image Retrieval System with the Concept of Visual Keys

Manabu Serata, Yutaka Hatakeyama, and Kaoru Hirota

Hirota Laboratory, Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, G3-49, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama-city 226-8502, Japan

Received:

January 14, 2005

Accepted:

September 25, 2005

Published:

March 20, 2006

Keywords:

content based image retrieval, text retrieval technique, clustering

Abstract

A concept of visual keys is proposed to provide efficient and useful content-based image retrieval systems to users. Visual keys are defined as representative sub-images which are extracted from an image database by using image feature clustering. The proposed system is implemented and is tested on 1,000 images, which are included in the COREL database. Although the system makes use of only 80 sub-images from 8,962 ones extracted from the image database, the performance is kept with 90%. The retrieval time is within 4ms on the proposed system, which has retrieval efficiency like that of text retrieval by being applied text retrieval techniques, and thus the system is expected to provide the services on the WWW.

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M. Serata, Y. Hatakeyama, and K. Hirota, “Designing Image Retrieval System with the Concept of Visual Keys,” J. Adv. Comput. Intell. Intell. Inform., Vol.10 No.2, pp. 136-144, 2006.

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