##Content Based Image Retrieval System

Due to the enormous increase in image database sizes, as well as its vast deployment in various applications, many Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) systems have been developed. The challenge, however, is in designing a system with the ability to retrieve best matches in case of having all kind of images as query. The power of such system highly depends on the features it employs to perform the matching process. In this project a CBIR system has been designed and developed. The report outlines a description of some primitive features of image, which have been utilized in the presented system. These features are extracted and used as the basis for a similarity check between images. The algorithms used to calculate the similarity between extracted features, are then explained. Final result was a Matlabapplication, with an image database, that utilized different features as the basis of comparison and retrieval. A GUI of the tool is illustrated below.

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##Prerequiste tools

To be able to correctly use color histogram features, whether in RGB, HSV, or HMMD color spaces, we need to prepare colormaps that will be used as a feature space (i.e. histogram bins). For each of the afromentioned color spaces we intend to extract a global color map that will be used to extract color histograms for all the images in the dataset. The following example reads an image in matlab and extracts an approriate color map, and then use it to generate a histogram represantation.

  file= ['images/1.jpg']; %Path to the image file
  rgb_image = imread(file); % Read the image
  double_image = im2double(rgb_image); % Convert image to double precision
  [indexed_image color_map] = rgb2ind(double_image,64); 

##License ( The MIT License )

Copyright (c) 2013 Amine Ben khalifa and Faezeh Tafazzoli

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