Retinex preprocessing of uncalibrated images for color-based image retrieval

In image databases, variations in imaging conditions and preprocessing may result in similar originals that exhibit a low mea- sure of similarity when color information is used in standard image retrieval methods. We examine the performance of various color- based retrieval strategies to see whether, and to what degree, the effectiveness of retrieval improves with Retinex-based preprocess- ing, regardless of the strategy adopted. The results of experiments performed on four different databases are reported and discussed.

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