Image retrieval for identifying house plants

Hanife Kebapci*, Berrin Yanikoglu, Gozde Unal

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Abstract

We present a content-based image retrieval system for plant identification which is intended for providing users with a simple method to locate information about their house plants. A plant image consists of a collection of overlapping leaves and possibly flowers, which makes the problem challenging. We studied the suitability of various well-known color, texture and shape features for this problem, as well as introducing some new ones. The features are extracted from the general plant region that is segmented from the background using the max-flow min-cut technique. Results on a database of 132 different plant images show promise (in about 72% of the queries, the correct plant image is retrieved among the top-15 results).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of SPIE-IS and T Electronic Imaging - Imaging and Printing in a Web 2.0 World; and Multimedia Content Access
Subtitle of host publicationAlgorithms and Systems IV
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes
EventImaging and Printing in a Web 2.0 World; and Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems IV - San Jose, CA, United States
Duration: 19 Jan 201021 Jan 2010

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume7540
ISSN (Print)0277-786X

Conference

ConferenceImaging and Printing in a Web 2.0 World; and Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems IV
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Jose, CA
Period19/01/1021/01/10

Keywords

  • Color features
  • Contour-based shape features
  • Gabor wavelets
  • Image retrieval
  • Sift

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