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Content-Based Retrieval From Compressed-Image Databases, Philip Ogunbona, P Sangassapaviriya Jan 1997

Content-Based Retrieval From Compressed-Image Databases, Philip Ogunbona, P Sangassapaviriya

Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)

There is an enormous amount of multi-media data including images, video, speech, audio and text, distributed among the various computer nodes on the Internet. The extent to which a user wiU be able to derive useful information from these data depends largely on the ease with which required data can be retrieved from the databases. The share volume of the data also poses a storage constraint on the databases; hence these data will need to exist in the compressed form on the databases. In this paper we concentrate on image data and propose a new paradigm in which a compressed …


Similarity Measures For Compressed Image Databases, P Sangassapaviriya, Philip Ogunbona Jan 1997

Similarity Measures For Compressed Image Databases, P Sangassapaviriya, Philip Ogunbona

Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)

For image database applications it is desirable that functions such as searching, browsing and partial recall be done without the need to totally decompress the image. This has the advantage of alleviating possible burden and degradation that the network may suffer. Edge images derived from wavelet-compressed images are considered as index that can be queried by example. Zernike moment invariants are used as descriptors for the index edge image and the query sketch image. The descriptions are compared for the purpose of database searching. The query images were allowed to undergo translation, rotation, scaling and some deformation. Simulation results gave …


Index-Compressed Vector Quantisation Based On Index Mapping, Jamshid Shanbehzadeh, Philip Ogunbona Jan 1997

Index-Compressed Vector Quantisation Based On Index Mapping, Jamshid Shanbehzadeh, Philip Ogunbona

Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)

The authors introduce a novel coding technique which significantly improves the performance of the traditional vector quantisation (VQ) schemes at low bit rates. High interblock correlation in natural images results in a high probability that neighbouring image blocks are mapped to small subsets of the VQ codebook, which contains highly correlated codevectors. If, instead of the whole VQ codebook, a small subset is considered for the purpose of encoding neighbouring blocks, it is possible to improve the performance of traditional VQ schemes significantly. The performance improvement obtained with the new method is about 3dB on average when compared with traditional …