This work addresses content based image retrieval (CBIR), focusing on developing a hidden semantic concept discovery methodology to address effective semantics-intensive image retrieval. In our approach, each image in the database is segmented to region; associated with homogenous color, texture, and shape features. By exploiting regional statistical information in each image and employing a vector quantization method, a uniform and sparse region-based representation is achieved. With this representation a probabilistic model based on statistical-hidden-class assumptions of the image database is obtained, to which expectation-maximization (EM) technique is applied to analyze semantic concepts hidden in the database. An elaborated retrieval algorithm is designed to support the probabilistic model. The semantic similarity is measured through integrating the posterior probabilities of the transformed query image, as well as a constructed negative example, to the discovered semantic concepts. The proposed approach has a solid statistical foundation and the experimental evaluations on a database of 10,000 general-purposed images demonstrate its promise of the effectiveness.


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    Title :

    Hidden semantic concept discovery in region based image retrieval


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    Publication date :

    2004-01-01


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    444153 byte





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    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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