A Survey on Face Recognition Techniques

Face detection is a computer technology that determines the locations and sizes of human faces in arbitrary (digital) images. It detects facial features and ignores anything else, such as buildings, trees and bodies. Face detection can be regarded as a specific case of object-class detection. In object-class detection, the task is to find the locations and sizes of all objects in an image that belong to a given class. Examples include upper torsos, pedestrians, and cars. Face detection can be regarded as a more general case of face localization. These days face detection is current research area. The face detection is normally done using ANN, CBIR, LDA and PCA. Keywords:- ANN, CBIR, LDA and PC

An Efficient CBIR Technique with YUV Color Space and Texture Features

In areas of government, academia and hospitals, large collections of digital images are being created. These image collections are the product of digitizing existing collections of analogue photographs, diagrams, drawings, paintings, and prints. Retrieving the specified similar image from a large dataset is very difficult. A new image retrieval system is presented in this paper, which used YUV color space and wavelet transform approach for feature extraction. Firstly, the color space is quantified in non-equal intervals, then constructed one dimension feature vector and represented the color feature. Similarly, the texture feature extraction is obtained by using wavelet. Finally, color feature and texture feature are combined based on wavelet transform. The image retrieval experiments specified that visual features were sensitive for different type images. The color features opted to the rich color image with simple variety. Texture feature opted to the complex images. At the same time, experiments reveal that YUV texture feature based on wavelet transform has better effective performance and stability than the RGB and HSV. The same work is performed for the RGB and HSV color space and their results are compared with the proposed system. The result shows that CBIR with the YUV color space retrieves image with more accuracy and reduced retrieval time. Keywords---Content based image retrieval, Wavelet transforms, YUV, HSV, RG

Integrated Multiple Features for Tumor Image Retrieval Using Classifier and Feedback Methods

AbstractThe content based image retrieval method greatly assists in retrieving medical images close to the query image from a large database basing on their visual features. This paper presents an effective approach in which the region of the object is extracted with the help of multiple features ignoring the background of the object by employing edge following segmentation method followed by extracting texture and shape characteristics of the images. The former is extracted with the help of Steerable filter at different orientations and radial Chebyshev moments are used for extracting the later. Initially the images similar to the query image are extracted from a large group of medical images. Then the search is by accelerating the retrieval process with the help of Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier. The performance of the retrieval system is enhanced by adapting the subjective feedback method. The experimental results show that the proposed region based multiple features and integrated with classifier and subjective feedback method yields better results than classical retrieval systems

Content Based Image Retrieval based on Shape with Texture Features

In areas of state, domain and hospitals, massive collections of digital pictures are being created. These image collections are the merchandise of digitizing existing collections of analogue images, diagrams, drawings, paintings, and prints. Retrieving the specified similar image from a large dataset is very difficult. A new image retrieval system is obtainable in this paper, for feature extraction HSV color space and wavelet transform approach are used. Initially constructed one dimension feature vector and represented the color feature it is made by that the color space is quantified in non-equal intervals. Then with the help of wavelet texture feature extraction is obtained. At last by using of wavelet transform combined the color feature and texture feature method. The illustration features are susceptible for different type images in image retrieval experiments. The color features opted to the rich color image with simple variety. Texture feature opted to the complex images. At the same time, experiments reveal that HSV texture feature based on wavelet transform has better effective performance and stability than the RGB. The same work is performed for the RGB color space and their results are compared with the proposed system. The result shows that CBIR with the HSV color space is retrieves image with more accuracy and reduced retrieval time. Keywords--Content Based Image Retrieval, HSV, RG

The Optimisation of Elementary and Integrative Content-Based Image Retrieval Techniques

Image retrieval plays a major role in many image processing applications. However, a number of factors (e.g. rotation, non-uniform illumination, noise and lack of spatial information) can disrupt the outputs of image retrieval systems such that they cannot produce the desired results. In recent years, many researchers have introduced different approaches to overcome this problem. Colour-based CBIR (content-based image retrieval) and shape-based CBIR were the most commonly used techniques for obtaining image signatures. Although the colour histogram and shape descriptor have produced satisfactory results for certain applications, they still suffer many theoretical and practical problems. A prominent one among them is the well-known “curse of dimensionality “. In this research, a new Fuzzy Fusion-based Colour and Shape Signature (FFCSS) approach for integrating colour-only and shape-only features has been investigated to produce an effective image feature vector for database retrieval. The proposed technique is based on an optimised fuzzy colour scheme and robust shape descriptors. Experimental tests were carried out to check the behaviour of the FFCSS-based system, including sensitivity and robustness of the proposed signature of the sampled images, especially under varied conditions of, rotation, scaling, noise and light intensity. To further improve retrieval efficiency of the devised signature model, the target image repositories were clustered into several groups using the k-means clustering algorithm at system runtime, where the search begins at the centres of each cluster. The FFCSS-based approach has proven superior to other benchmarked classic CBIR methods, hence this research makes a substantial contribution towards corresponding theoretical and practical fronts

Recuperação de informação multimodal em repositórios de imagem médica

The proliferation of digital medical imaging modalities in hospitals and other diagnostic facilities has created huge repositories of valuable data, often not fully explored. Moreover, the past few years show a growing trend of data production. As such, studying new ways to index, process and retrieve medical images becomes an important subject to be addressed by the wider community of radiologists, scientists and engineers. Content-based image retrieval, which encompasses various methods, can exploit the visual information of a medical imaging archive, and is known to be beneficial to practitioners and researchers. However, the integration of the latest systems for medical image retrieval into clinical workflows is still rare, and their effectiveness still show room for improvement. This thesis proposes solutions and methods for multimodal information retrieval, in the context of medical imaging repositories. The major contributions are a search engine for medical imaging studies supporting multimodal queries in an extensible archive; a framework for automated labeling of medical images for content discovery; and an assessment and proposal of feature learning techniques for concept detection from medical images, exhibiting greater potential than feature extraction algorithms that were pertinently used in similar tasks. These contributions, each in their own dimension, seek to narrow the scientific and technical gap towards the development and adoption of novel multimodal medical image retrieval systems, to ultimately become part of the workflows of medical practitioners, teachers, and researchers in healthcare.A proliferação de modalidades de imagem médica digital, em hospitais, clínicas e outros centros de diagnóstico, levou à criação de enormes repositórios de dados, frequentemente não explorados na sua totalidade. Além disso, os últimos anos revelam, claramente, uma tendência para o crescimento da produção de dados. Portanto, torna-se importante estudar novas maneiras de indexar, processar e recuperar imagens médicas, por parte da comunidade alargada de radiologistas, cientistas e engenheiros. A recuperação de imagens baseada em conteúdo, que envolve uma grande variedade de métodos, permite a exploração da informação visual num arquivo de imagem médica, o que traz benefícios para os médicos e investigadores. Contudo, a integração destas soluções nos fluxos de trabalho é ainda rara e a eficácia dos mais recentes sistemas de recuperação de imagem médica pode ser melhorada. A presente tese propõe soluções e métodos para recuperação de informação multimodal, no contexto de repositórios de imagem médica. As contribuições principais são as seguintes: um motor de pesquisa para estudos de imagem médica com suporte a pesquisas multimodais num arquivo extensível; uma estrutura para a anotação automática de imagens; e uma avaliação e proposta de técnicas de representation learning para deteção automática de conceitos em imagens médicas, exibindo maior potencial do que as técnicas de extração de features visuais outrora pertinentes em tarefas semelhantes. Estas contribuições procuram reduzir as dificuldades técnicas e científicas para o desenvolvimento e adoção de sistemas modernos de recuperação de imagem médica multimodal, de modo a que estes façam finalmente parte das ferramentas típicas dos profissionais, professores e investigadores da área da saúde.Programa Doutoral em Informátic