Combination of Dominant Color Descriptor and Hu Moments in Consistent Zone for Content Based Image Retrieval

The rapidly increasing number of digital images requires effective retrieval. Meanwhile, the dominant color descriptor has been widely used in image processing. Due to the influence of lighting and other factors, the same color in nature may have some different changes. The human eye is usually more sensitive to zones of consistent color, often identifying objects by zones of consistency. Therefore, the proposed method in this paper first applies the texton template to detect and extract the consistent zone of an image, and calculates the dominant color descriptor feature on the pixels in this consistent zone. Besides, the translation and rotation invariance of the Hu moments feature is applied to extract the shape information in the same consistent zone of the image. Finally, the combination of the dominant dolor descriptor and the Hu moments is used for content-based image retrieval. The algorithm proposed in this paper is tested on three data sets: Corel-1k, Corel-5k and Corel-10k, and the experimental results show that it is superior to the current content-based image retrieval methods.