The current image retrieval algorithms usually extract features from the whole input image to conduct retrieval tasks.However
in many cases users focus on only a part of the image
i.e.object-of-interest.As a result
the features extracted from the image are partially effective.In other words
some of the features are ineffective and might have a negative impact on the retrieval process.To overcome this difficulty
an image retrieval scheme based on object-of-interest is proposed.By incorporating this retrieval scheme with the existing techniques in saliency detection
image segmentation
and feature extraction
an effective image retrieval algorithm is coded.First
the hierarchical saliency (HS) detection algorithm is adopted to analyze the user's object-of-interest
and the saliency-based image cut (SC) algorithm is employed to segment it from the input image.Then
we extract the hue
saturation
value (HSV) color features
the scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) local features and the convolutional neural network (CNN) semantic features of the object-of-interest.Finally
the similarity of object-of-interest between a query image and every database image is computed and the retrieval result is sorted accordingly.Simulation experimental results show that
when being used to cope with a retrieval task like what is this
the proposed algorithm is significantly better than the current image retrieval algorithms.