Towards interactive image query system for content-based image retrieval

This paper presents an interface of image query system for content-based image retrieval. The proposed interface can split images into the regions and select an target region from the separated regions. We apply content-based image retrieval to the selected region as a query. The images in databases are also split into the areas in advance. The content features such as color and texture are extracted from these areas and stored in the feature database. The texture features of images are based on statistic obtained by wavelet transform of images. Finally, our system presents the images whose areas are similar to the query's areas specified by our image query interface. In addition, our interface can also tune the weight parameters about the content features in order to get the desired images manually.