Improving the similarity search between images of agricultural products: An approach based on fuzzy rough theory

Many methods have been presented in recent years for identifying the quality of agricultural products using machine vision that due to the huge amount of redundant information and noisy data of images of products, the retrieval accuracy and speed of such methods were not much acceptable. All of them try to provide approaches to extract efficient features and determine optimal methods to measure similarity between images. One of the basic problems of these methods is determination of desirable features of the user as well as using an appropriate similarity measure. This study tries to recognize the importance of each feature according to user’s opinion in every feedback stage through using weighted feature vector, rough theory and fuzzy logic for identifying important features and finding a higher accuracy in retrieval result. The proposed method is compared with fuzzy color histogram, combined approach and fuzzy neighborhood entropy characterized by color location. The simulation results indicate that the proposed method has higher applicability in image marketing compared to the existing methods.

Human Detection by Fourier Descriptors and Fuzzy Color Histograms with Fuzzyc-Means Method

[abstFig src='/00280004/07.jpg' width='300' text='Result of specific person detection in Tsukuba Challenge' ] It is difficult to use histograms of oriented gradients (HOG) or other gradient-based features to detect persons in outdoor environments given that the background or scale undergoes considerable changes. This study involved the segmentation of depth images. Additionally, P-type Fourier descriptors were extracted as shape features from two-dimensional coordinates of a contour in the segmentation domains. With respect to the P-type Fourier descriptors, a person detector was created with the fuzzyc-means method (for general person detection). Furthermore, a fuzzy color histogram was extracted in terms of color features from the RGB values of the domain surface. With respect to the fuzzy color histogram, a detector of a person wearing specific clothes was created with the fuzzyc-means method (specific person detection). The study includes the following characteristics: 1) The general person detection requires less number of images used for learning and is robust against a change in the scale when compared to that in cases in which HOG or other methods are used. 2) The specific person detection gives results close to those obtained by human color vision when compared to the color indices such as RGB or CIEDE. This method was applied for a person search application at the Tsukuba Challenge, and the obtained results confirmed the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Retrieval Model Based on Image Content Features

This paper presents fuzzy color histogram feature-based image retrieval method and texture spectrum fuzzy histogram feature analyzes the image database indexing techniques and the introduction of the experimental system for an improved method of fuzzy indexes. Algorithm reflects the underlying characteristics of high-level concepts and integration, relevance feedback and machine learning mechanism combining ideas. In this paper, the algorithm full processing power of computer systems, has a certain reference value and practical significance.