HAO Yubao, WANG Renli, GU Lijuan. A New Image Retrieval Method Using Contourlet-based Rotation-invariant Feature for Remote Sensing Images[J]. Journal of Image and Graphics, 2010, 15(4): 670. DOI: 10.11834/jig.20100419.
There are plenty of structure edge features in remote sensing images besides texture features. How to capture the information contained in these features is a key point to retrieve remote sensing image effectively. Given that Contourlet transform has the function of multi-scale geometric analysis in the discrete domain
we have put forward a novel approach for image retrieval
which extracts the energy features of Contourlet subbands to obtain the edge direction information under different scales. For the ability differences in capturing different direction features
we have adopted an orthogonal compensation method to remedy them
and realized rotation invariant image retrieval through processing them with Fourier operator. Experiments on remote sensing images demonstrate this retrieval algorithm is especiauy effective for those images containing rich structural edge features.