Image Retrieval Based on the Combination of Region and Orientation Correlation Descriptors

Abstract

A large number of growing digital images require retrieval effectively, but the trade-off between accuracy and speed is a tricky problem. This paperwork proposes a lightweight and efficient image retrieval approach by combining region and orientation correlation descriptors (CROCD). The region color correlation pattern and orientation color correlation pattern are extracted by the region descriptor and the orientation descriptor, respectively. The feature vector of the image is extracted from the two correlation patterns. The proposed algorithm has the advantages of statistic and texture description methods, and it can represent the spatial correlation of color and texture. The feature vector has only 80 dimensions for full color images specifically. Therefore, it is very efficient in image retrieving. The proposed algorithm is extensively tested on three datasets in terms of precision and recall. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm outperforms other state-of-the-art algorithms.