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Decision fusion-based approach for content-based image classification

Sudeep Thepade (Department of Information Technology, Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering, Pune, India)
Rik Das (Department of Information Technology, Xavier Institute of Social Service, Ranchi, India)
Saurav Ghosh (A.K. Choudhury School of Information Technology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India)

International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics

ISSN: 1756-378X

Article publication date: 14 August 2017

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Abstract

Purpose

Current practices in data classification and retrieval have experienced a surge in the use of multimedia content. Identification of desired information from the huge image databases has been facing increased complexities for designing an efficient feature extraction process. Conventional approaches of image classification with text-based image annotation have faced assorted limitations due to erroneous interpretation of vocabulary and huge time consumption involved due to manual annotation. Content-based image recognition has emerged as an alternative to combat the aforesaid limitations. However, exploring rich feature content in an image with a single technique has lesser probability of extract meaningful signatures compared to multi-technique feature extraction. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to explore the possibilities of enhanced content-based image recognition by fusion of classification decision obtained using diverse feature extraction techniques.

Design/methodology/approach

Three novel techniques of feature extraction have been introduced in this paper and have been tested with four different classifiers individually. The four classifiers used for performance testing were K nearest neighbor (KNN) classifier, RIDOR classifier, artificial neural network classifier and support vector machine classifier. Thereafter, classification decisions obtained using KNN classifier for different feature extraction techniques have been integrated by Z-score normalization and feature scaling to create fusion-based framework of image recognition. It has been followed by the introduction of a fusion-based retrieval model to validate the retrieval performance with classified query. Earlier works on content-based image identification have adopted fusion-based approach. However, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, fusion-based query classification has been addressed for the first time as a precursor of retrieval in this work.

Findings

The proposed fusion techniques have successfully outclassed the state-of-the-art techniques in classification and retrieval performances. Four public data sets, namely, Wang data set, Oliva and Torralba (OT-scene) data set, Corel data set and Caltech data set comprising of 22,615 images on the whole are used for the evaluation purpose.

Originality/value

To the best of the authors’ knowledge, fusion-based query classification has been addressed for the first time as a precursor of retrieval in this work. The novel idea of exploring rich image features by fusion of multiple feature extraction techniques has also encouraged further research on dimensionality reduction of feature vectors for enhanced classification results.

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Citation

Thepade, S., Das, R. and Ghosh, S. (2017), "Decision fusion-based approach for content-based image classification", International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics, Vol. 10 No. 3, pp. 310-331. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJICC-07-2016-0025

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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