Batik image retrieval based on enhanced micro-structure descriptor

This paper describes a novel method for extracting features of batik images. This method is called enhanced micro-structure descriptor (EMSD). EMSD is the enhanced model of micro-structure descriptor (MSD) which proposed by Guang-Hai Liu. Different with MSD that uses only edge orientation similarity for creating micro-structure map and then utilises this map along with color values; EMSD adds a new micro-structure map that is based on color similarity and then utilises this map along with edge orientation values. The combination of MSD and the additional micro-structure descriptor is used as feature extractor in EMSD. This method is tested on 300 batik images, Corel datasets with 5,000 images and 10,000 images. We also compared EMSD to MSD and multi-textons histogram (MTH), which EMSD performance is superior than the other two.