National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.61372158);A Project Funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions;Six Talents Peaks in Jiangsu Province (No.2010-DZXX-023);Major Projec Natural Science Research in Universities of Jiangsu Province (No.11KJA520004);Industrialization Promotion Program of Scientific Research Achievemnet of colleges and universities in Jiangsu Province (No.JHB2012-18);Pre-research Foundation of Nanjing University of Finance and Economics (No.W_BXW12001)
A multi-scale arc height shape description(MSAH)is proposed for image retrieval.This method uses the multi-scale arc height to measure the bending degree of each contour point.At each scale
an arch height function is generated and is suffered from Fourier transform.The Low frequency coefficients of Fourier transform for arch height functions of each scale are combined to form a feature vector as the shape description.At the shape matching stage
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distance between the two features is used to measure the shape similarity.MSAH can not only capture the global features of the shape
but also reflect the details of the shape
therefor it has a higher retrieval
accuracy when applied to image retrieval.MSAH is very compact and has a low computational complexity
so it has higher retrieval efficiency.MSAH is evaluated on the MPEG-7 shape database and plant leaf database
all the experiments show that MSAH has higher retrieval performance over the recent proposed transform domain based methods and shape contexts method.