Jingji Zhao
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology,
Nanjing, 210044, China
(Received May 11 2019, accepted July 20 2019)
Existing content-based image retrieval methods exist some drawbacks, such as low retrieval
precision, unstable performance. To address these drawbacks, in this paper a content-based image retrieval
method is presented based on multi-feature fusion of principal component, oriented-gradient and color
histogram. The idea for the proposed method is: firstly, input image is grayscale and flattened into a one-
dimensional vector, and the first n principal components from the vector yielded by the PCA algorithm are
extracted, in other word, input image is represented as a n×1 dimensional PCA feature vector. Secondly, to
remedy color and orientation information missed by PCA, oriented-gradient and color histograms are used to
extract orientation and color features respectively. Thirdly, extracted oriented-gradient and color histograms
are merged with PCA features to generate the multi-feature representation of the input image. This paper
confirms that the proposed multi-feature method can better represent an input image and can easily measure
the similarity between images. The experiments are carried out and evaluated based on Corel-1000 , the target
method is significantly better than the four popular methods.