Color texture moments for content-based image retrieval

We adopt a local Fourier transform as a texture representation scheme and derive eight characteristic maps for describing different aspects of cooccurrence relations of image pixels in each channel of the (SVcosH, SVsinH, V) color space. Then we calculate the first and second moments of these maps as a representation of the natural color image pixel distribution, resulting in a 48-dimensional feature vector. The novel low-level feature is named color texture moments (CTM), which can also be regarded as a certain extension to color moments in eight aspects through eight orthogonal templates. Experiments show that this new feature can achieve good retrieval performance for CBIR.

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