Compact image signature generation: An application in image retrieval

In this article, we have proposed a novel Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) system, where each image in the database is represented by a compact image signature which is computed using the Nonsubsampled Contourlet Transform (NSCT) and Fuzzy-C-means (FCM) technique. To improve the retrieval accuracy, the proposed system incorporates Least Square Support Vector Machine (LS-SVM) based classifier, Earth Mover's Distance (EMD) and Relevance Feedback Mechanism (RFM). Extensive experiments were carried out to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed system on SIMPLIcity image database consisting of 1000 images. Experimental results and comparisons show that the proposed CBIR system performs efficiently in image retrieval domain.