P. Androutsos, A. Kushki, K. N. Plataniotis and A.
N. Venetsanopoulos,
Aggregation of color and shape features for hybrid query
generation in content based visual information retrieval,
Signal Processing,
2004. (in press)
P. Androutsos, A. Kushki, K. N. Plataniotis and A.
N. Venetsanopoulos,
Aggregation of color and shape features for hybrid query
generation in content based visual information retrieval,
Signal Processing,
2004. (in press)A fuzzy approach for the aggregation of multiple features in content-based image retrieval is outlined. Color, shape and spatial features extracted using both computational and manual segmentation techniques are used for subsequent generation of hybrid queries to a ground truth image database consisting of architectural photographs. Retrieval results for multiple-feature queries are shown in the form of precision recall graphs. The results indicate that the fuzzy approach presented herein can perform at least as well as a weighted mean approach.