Cosine-Modulated Wavelet Packet based Texture Features for Content based Image Retrieval

Abstract

Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) is an active research area with application to digital libraries and multimedia databases. The focus of this paper is on the image processing aspects and in particular texture features for CBIR. We propose Cosine modulated wavelet packet based texture features for CBIR. The major advantages of Cosine modulated wavelet transform are less implementation complexity and good filter quality. Texture features are obtained by computing the energy, standard deviation and their combination on each subband of the decomposed image. To check the retrieval performance, texture database of 1856 textures is created from Brodatz album. Results are compared with standard Daubechies wavelet packet, Af-band wavelet packet and Gabor wavelet. Result indicates that proposed method is superior to other methods in terms of retrieval accuracy and retrieval time.

Indexing terms:

• Content baed image retrieval
• Wavelet
• Cosine modulated wavelet
• Texture

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Notes on contributors

Manesh Kokare

Manesh Kokare was born in Pune, India, in Aug 1972. He received the Diploma in Industrial Electronics Engineering from Board of Technical Examination, Maharashtra, India, in 1990, and BE and ME Degrees in Electronics from Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering and Technology Nanded, Maharashtra, India, in 1993 and 1999 respectively, and PhD from the Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, India, in 2005.

Since June 1993 to Oct 1995, he worked with Industry. From Oct 1995, he started his carrier in academics as a lecturer in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering at SGGS Institute of Engineering and Technology, Nanded, where he is presently holding position of senior lecturer. His research interests include wavelets, image processing, pattern recognition, and Content Based Image Retrieval.

Dr Manesh Kokare has been awarded the prestigious Career Award for Young Teachers (CA YT) by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi for the year 2005. He has been also awarded the post doctoral research fellowship by University of Barcelona, Spain for the year 2006–07. He is a life member of System Society of India. He has published about 17 papers in international and national journals and conferences.

P K Biswas

P K Biswas completed his B Tech, (Hons), MTech and PhD from the Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, India, in the years 1985, 1989 and 1991 respectively.

From 1985 to 1987 he was with Bharat Electronics Ltd Ghaziabad as a Deputy Engineer. Since 1991 he has been working as a Faculty member in the Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, where he is presently holding the position of Professor.

He has published more than sixty research publications in International and National Journals and Conferences and has filed seven international patents. His areas of interest are Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Video Compression, Parallel and Distributed Processing and Computer Networks.

B N Chatterji

B N Chatterji completed his B Tech. (Hons), and PhD from the Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, India in the years 1965 and 1970 respectively. From 1972–73, he was Post-Doctoral Fellow at University of Erlangen, Germany.

From 1965 to 1966, he was with Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Pilani, India, as Senior Research Fellow. Since 1967 he had worked as a Faculty member in the Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, where he is presently retired from the position of Professor. He has published more than 150 papers in reputed International and National journals apart from authoring three Scientific Books.

He received the prestigious Shri Hari Om Ashram Prerit Dr Vikram Sarabhai Award for the year 1983 for his achievements in the field of Electronics and Telecommunication. He also received the prestigious National Crime Records Bureau's prizes for his research papers in fingerprint related techniques and technologies for three consecutive years 1990, 1991, and 1992. He is a fellow of JETE and Institution of Engineers. His research interests are Low-level Vision, Image Analysis, Pattern Recognition and Motion Analysis.