摘要
A new techinque for color based image retrieval is proposed. In this technique, the whole spectrum of a color image is divided into several sub ranges according to human visual characteristics. Then for each sub range, the cumulative histogram is used for similarity matching. It is shown that the color contents of image can be well captured by the sub range cumulative histogram. The new technique has been tested and compared with conventional techniques with the help of a database of 400 images of real flowers, which are quite complicated in color contents. Some satisfactory retrieval results are presented.
