Region-based image retrieval using the semantic cluster matrix and adaptive learning. (1st January 2012)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Felci Rajam, I.; Valli, S.
• Is Part Of: International journal of computational science and engineering. Volume 7:Number 3(2012)
• Page Start: 239
• Page End: 252
• Publication Date: 2012-01-01
• Subjects: semantic cluster -- semantic template -- semantic threshold -- affinity matrix -- feature extraction -- semantic cluster matrix -- SCM -- support vector machine -- SVM -- binary decision tree -- BDT -- relevance feedback -- RF -- adaptive learning -- region-based image retrieval -- RBIR; Computer science -- Mathematics -- Periodicals; Computer simulation -- Mathematical aspects -- Periodicals; Computational intelligence -- Periodicals; 004.015105
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1742-7185

Abstract

An image retrieval system, which reduces the semantic gap between the low level image features and the high level semantic concepts, using the semantic cluster matrix (SCM) and adaptive learning during testing, is proposed. This mechanism retrieves semantically relevant images for both trained and untrained image categories. The SCM groups the new categories into semantic clusters, records the cluster's semantic information, gets the relevance feedback (RF) from the user, and records this in the SCM. Thus, the SCM adaptively learns about the new categories during the testing time, and is able to retrieve semantically relevant images for untrained categories also. Experiments were conducted using the Caltech image dataset consisting of 101 categories of images. The obtained results demonstrate that the proposed approach achieves good performance in terms of retrieval accuracy.