It has been demonstrated that accurate image segmentation is still an open problem. For avoiding this difficulties in content-based image retrieval, an region uniform partition approaching was proposed. Based on fusing regional color features using smooth slide histogram and texture features extracted using Gabor wavelet, we provided the corresponding similarity measure. The image retrieval performance on a subset of the COREL database are better than SIMPLIcity system showed the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Color- and texture-based image segmentation using EM and its application to content-based image retrieval