@Article{JICS-13-201, author = {Shuxian Huang and Wenbing Chen}, title = {A Salient Object-Based Image Retrieval Using Shape and Color Features}, journal = {Journal of Information and Computing Science}, year = {2018}, volume = {13}, number = {3}, pages = {201--211}, abstract = {Shuxian Huang, Wenbing Chen Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China (Received January 17 2018, accepted July 05 2018) In  this  paper,  a  salient  object-based  image  retrieval  method  (SOBIR)  is  presented,  which  linearly combines the shape and colour features of the salient objects contained in target and candidate images respectively to carry out content-based image retrieval (CBIR). The framework of the proposed method is carried out as follows: first, the mean shift and region growing algorithms are used to segment an input image into many regions; secondly, based on these regional contrasts the saliency map, the binary image, and the salient object image are extracted respectively; thirdly,  the  shape  representation  of  the  salient  object  is  extracted  from  the  binary  image  using  an  improved  polar Fourier Descriptor method, meanwhile the salient object contained in the input image is converted into a representation of its histogram in the L∗a∗b∗ colour space; Finally, the similarity between the two salient objects contained in the target and candidate images is defined by linearly combining both the shape and colour representations. Experimental results  show  that,  compared  to  the  latest  two  CBIR  methods,  the  proposed  SOBIR  method  exhibits  an  excellent performance in precision, recall, flexibility and efficiency. }, issn = {3080-180X}, doi = {https://doi.org/}, url = {http://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jics/22446.html} }