Feature Set Reduction in Rotation Invariant CBIR Using Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet Transform

1.1 Need of CBIR

The need of content based image retrieval (CBIR) system is increasing day by day because the interest in the digital images has increased enormously. There are various reasons which enhance the demand of CBIR system. Some of the reasons are given as follows:

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  Rapid Growth in Digital Image Database: In today’s world, the more and more image data is stored in data book. There is a need of a way to search an image quickly. The way should be fully automatic search tool to save time because the process of manual categorization of images is time consuming, expensive and tedious.

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  Professional Needs: In many professional fields, users are getting the opportunities to access and manipulate remotely stored images in all kind of ways. The other professional need for the CBIR system is “Logo Search”. The professionals are also dependent on system which gives an efficient and quick retrieval of images. In medicine, it is very useful for doctors who want to retrieve MRI, ultrasound, CT scan images matching the query image for diagnostic purposes.

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  Locating Images on the Web: The interest in the potential of digital images has fuelled at least in part by the rapid growth of imaging on the World Wide Web. As the collection of images in the web is increased there is a requirement of a system which has quick and efficient retrieval characteristics. The solution for these issues is “content based image retrieval” system, which provides quick and efficient retrieval of image in huge collection. The image retrieval problems are becoming widely recognized and search for solution is an increasingly active area of research and development. A number of critical areas were identified where research was needed including feature extraction and indexing, image query matching and presentation of images.