DEVELOPMENT OF SYSTEM FOR PARTIAL IMAGE RETRIEVAL USING IMAGE CHARACTERISTIC AND ITS APPLICATION

Abstract

 In recent years, as digital cameras have become widespread and it is getting common to equip a mobile phone or a smart phone with a camera, opportunities to treat digital images are rapidly increasing regardless of individuals or companies. This is particularly remarkable in the field of civil engineering; enormous-scale image databases are being built such as of highway images shot by a mobile mapping system, satellite photos, and textured images of three-dimensional models. However, the more these image databases become enormous, the more it will be difficult to find out the image of interest. This research develops a universal partial image retrieval system by creating templates for characteristic of pictorial images such as color information and position relationships and calculating the relevance between templates. Then the system is applied to the real problem and to verify its effectiveness on an enormous-scale image database.