Color Image Retrieval Method Using Low Dimensional Salient Visual Feature Descriptors for IoT Applications

Abstract

Digital data are rising fast as Internet technology advances through many sources, such as smart phones, social networking sites, IoT, and other communication channels. Therefore, successfully storing, searching, and retrieving desired images from such large-scale databases are critical. Low-dimensional feature descriptors play an essential role in speeding up the retrieval process in such a large-scale dataset. A feature extraction approach based on the integration of color and texture contents has been proposed in the proposed system for the construction of a low-dimensional feature descriptor. In which color contents are quantified from a preprocessed quantized HSV color image and texture contents are retrieved from a Sobel edge detection-based preprocessed V-plane of HSV color image using a block level DCT (discrete cosine transformation) and gray level co-occurrence matrix. On a benchmark image dataset, the suggested image retrieval scheme is validated. The experimental outcomes were compared to ten cutting-edge image retrieval algorithms, which outperformed in the vast majority of cases.