A robust image retrieval method using the trace transform for JPEG 2000 Images

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an image retrieval method using signs of discrete wavelet transform (DWT) coefficients for JPEG 2000 images. For JPEG 2000 images, a number of image estimation methods using the number of zero bit-planes, extracted from the header information have been studied so far, and they have been applied to the calculation of the similarity between images. However, the estimation methods limited to the absolute values of DWT coefficients. The purpose of this article is to robustly estimate image features, and to apply it to image retrieval for JPEG2000 images. The proposed method uses only signs of low-band DWT coefficients to achieve robust image retrieval against the difference of compression levels. A number of simulations are provided to confirm the effectiveness of the proposed method.