IMAGE: Region-Color Based Image Retrieval Toolbox

Abstract

This paper discusses the region based image retrieval from databases based on the dominant color descriptor. Region color feature is extracted using mean shift algorithm. To efficiently retrieve images a novel cluster-based R*-Tree indexing method is proposed and the efficiency is compared with R*-Tree and sequential search. Experimental results show the performance of the proposed method. The toolbox named IMAGE is developed in Java and supports query-by-example.