<title>Image indexing based on vector quantization</title>

Abstract

We propose the computation of the color palette of each image in isolation, using Vector Quantization methods. The image features are, then, the color palette and the histogram of the color quantization of the image with this color palette. We propose as a measure of similitude the weighted sum of the differences between the color palettes and the corresponding histograms. This approach allows the increase of the database without the recomputation of the image features and without substantial loss of discriminative power.