<title>Object-region-based color image retrieval</title>

Abstract

In this paper one color image retrieval algorithm based on object regions is presented. First obtain each component image in the HSV space and then get the binary edge image of each component image. According to the connectedness of the edge images the object regions of the color image are extracted. During the image retrieval the sub image features corresponding to the object regions are used in the image similarity matching process in place of the global image features. Experiments show that the colorimage retrieval algorithm based on object regions is superior to that based on the global image.