LOW-LEVEL FEATURES FOR IMAGE RETRIEVAL BASED
ON EXTRACTION OF DIRECTIONAL BINARY PATTERNS
AND ITS ORIENTED GRADIENTS HISTOGRAM
Computer Applications: An International Journal (CAIJ),, 2 (1):
1-16 (2015/02 2015)Abstract
In this paper, we present a novel approach for image retrieval based on extraction of low level features
using techniques such as Directional Binary Code (DBC), Haar Wavelet transform and Histogram of
Oriented Gradients (HOG). The DBC texture descriptor captures the spatial relationship between any pair
of neighbourhood pixels in a local region along a given direction, while Local Binary Patterns (LBP)
descriptor considers the relationship between a given pixel and its surrounding neighbours. Therefore,
DBC captures more spatial information than LBP and its variants, also it can extract more edge
information than LBP. Hence, we employ DBC technique in order to extract grey level texture features
(texture map) from each RGB channels individually and computed texture maps are further combined
which represents colour texture features (colour texture map) of an image. Then, we decomposed the
extracted colour texture map and original image using Haar wavelet transform. Finally, we encode the
shape and local features of wavelet transformed images using Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) for
content based image retrieval. The performance of proposed method is compared with existing methods on
two databases such as Wang’s corel image and Caltech 256. The evaluation results show that our
approach outperforms the existing methods for image retrieval.