Abstract
The purpose is to arrive at image retrieval invariant to a substantial change in illumination.
We will extend the theory that we have recently proposed on illumination invariant color models [6]. Then, a multi-scale image representation is produced by applying Gaussian derivatives at different scale levels on the illumination invariant color models. In this way, a multi-dimensional multi-scale image index is obtained which is illumination-independent and invariant under the group of rotations in the image domain. The multi-scale image representation is taken as input for image retrieval by query by example (i.e. an example image is given by the user) and image retrieval by arranging the image database as a binary tree (i.e. no example image is given is available).
Experiments have been conducted on a database consisting of 500 images taken from multicolored man-made objects in real world scenes. From the experimental results it can be observed that image retrieval by multi-scale invariant indexing provides high retrieval accuracy even under spatially and spectrally varying illumination.
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Gevers, T., Smeulders, A.W. (1998). Image retrieval by multi-scale illumination invariant Indexing. In: Ip, H.H.S., Smeulders, A.W.M. (eds) Multimedia Information Analysis and Retrieval. MINAR 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1464. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0016491
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