Phase congruency and ODBTC based image retrieval

Abstract

In this study, the authors investigate content based image retrieval (CBIR) using ordered-dither block truncation coding (ODBTC) and phase congruency feature (PCF). Relevant feature extraction plays a vital role for retrieving the image in CBIR. The unique reason to choose PCF with ODBTC is that it detects the edges and corners during variation of image while preserving image brightness and contrast. Combining the PCF and ODBTC features improves CBIR system usage in various visual data processing domains. Thus, yields a better CBIR system which assists in the reduction of storage space, decreases retrieval time and increases accuracy of the system. The precision and recall are used as performance metrics to evaluate the proposed method based on retrieval of relevant images. Extensive experimental results with Corel 1 K (1000 images), Corel 10 K (10000 images) and CALTECH 256 (30144 images) proves that the proposed method is more desirable than antecedent proposed CBIR system in terms of accuracy, precision and recall. © The Institution of Engineering and Technology 2020