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International Journal Of Engineering And Computer Science ISSN:2319-7242
Volume 4 Issue 3 March 2015, Page No. 10819-10822
Sketch Based Photographs Retrieval System
Mrs.Shameera S.L,#1B.E(M.E), Mr.P.Gopalakrishnan#2, M.Tech,M.B.A
#1
Student, Department of CSE, Sathyam College Of Engineering And Technology,Aralvamozhi,Tamilnadu.
#1
slshameera@gmail.com
#2
Head of the Department,Department of CSE,Sathyam College Of Engineering And Technology
ABSTRACT: The image retrieval technique uses so many methods for retrieving related images from various
database systems. Sketch based retrieval of image also used for many purposes in the cyber activity or any other
search engine. The aim of this paper is to retrieve the images from the database based on the sketch that the use
drawn. Here we consider the attributes of sketch and compare the sketches with the related images. The features
of sketches like color (RGB format) edge points, lines, circles, rectangles, and straight lines for comparing with
the related images. And after comparing these images we are trying to retrieve the refined result of users sketch
.That means the user can view the accurate results with maximum clarity. The paper concerns with the effective
and quality results of user search and here we apply the different vision techniques to extract the features of the
sketch.
Keywords: Pattern matching, template
memory-span, histogram, memorability.
method,
I.INTRODUCTION:
For retrieving the related images from the user
drawn we use the pattern matching. It is the act of
checking a given sequence of tokens for the presence of
the constituents of some pattern. To pattern recognition,
the match usually has to be exact. It is a technique
in digital image processing for finding small parts of an
image which match a template image. It can be used in
manufacturing as a way to detect edges in images.
There are two types of pattern matching:
combinatorial pattern matching and spatial pattern
matching. Examples of combinatorial pattern matching
are string matching, DNA pattern matching, and edit
distance computation. Spatial pattern matching is the
problem of finding a match between two given intensity
images or geometric models. Here, a match may be a
correspondence or a geometric transformation. Pattern
matching problems can be categorized by three
components: the collection of patterns, the class of
transformations, and the criterion used to select a
transformation.
There are different approaches used in pattern
matching. In feature-based approach, if the image has
strong features, a feature-based approach may be
considered; the approach may prove further useful if
the match in the search image might be transformed in
some fashion. Since this approach does not consider
the entirety of the image, it can be more
computationally efficient when working with source
images of larger resolution.
In template-based approach, for templates
without strong features, or for when the bulk of the
image constitutes the matching image, a templatebased approach may be effective. In photometric
methods work directly on images which are considered
as arrays of intensity values or real valued functions.
And in geometric methods work on geometric data
may be obtained directly from vector based object
representations. It may also be obtained from images
using feature extraction techniques.
II. RELATED WORKS:
The draw based related images can be
retrieved by using the features and also including
memory test that set precludes the use of considerable
time needed to view the stimuli even once. The data
show how different an estimate of memory capacity
follows when free recall or recognition test are used
rather than the classic “memory span” test where
performance seldom exceeds seven items. This
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techniques has emerged during the present studies is
that memory capacity applies both to the number of
items retained and to the speed with which they may
be retrieved [1]. The interference in memory was not
predicted by the perceptual distinctiveness of
exemplars from an object category, through these
perceptual measures predicted visual search rates for
an object target among exemplars [2]. Scene and
object categories may be best treated as entities at a
similar level of conceptual abstraction, providing the
semantic structure necessary to support recognition
and memory of visual details [3]. The upper bound
size of the visual long-term memory has not been
reached even with previous attempts to push the
quantity of items [4]. This suggest that the underlying
visual features that we rely on to distinguish these
different changes are distinct and are forgotten
separately [5].
III. PROPOSED DESCRIPTION:
A.GENERATION OF DATABASE
In the proposed method, the images are
connected with the database dataset generation. The
system was designed for databases containing
relatively simple images, but even in such cases large
differences can occur among images in file size or
resolution. In addition, some images may be noisier,
the extent and direction of illumination and so the
feature vectors cannot be effectively compared. In
order to avoid it, a multistep preprocessing mechanism
precedes the generation of descriptors. The input of the
preprocessing subsystem is one image, and the output
is the respective processed result set. As an
approximate method the uniform and minimum
variance quantization were used. After the
transformation step edges are detected, of which the
smaller ones are filtered by morphological opening
filter. The images and their descriptors are stored and
the necessary mechanism for subsequent processing is
provided. This is the database management subsystem,
which consists of three parts, the storage, the retrieval,
and the data manipulation modules.
The storage module provides images,
information and the associated feature vectors are
uploaded to the database. The file name, size and
format of the image are attached. For storage the large
images are reduced. The data is stored in a global, not
scattered place in the hard disk.
B.FEATURE EXTRACTION
In order to implement the feature extraction
some series of steps must be followed. The first step is
to filter out any noise in the original image before
trying to locate and detect any edges. And because the
Gaussian filter can be computed using a simple mask.
After smoothing the image and eliminating the noise,
the next step is to find the edge strength by taking the
gradient of the image. Finding the edge direction is
trivial once the gradient in the p and q directions are
known. However, you will generate an error whenever
sumP is equal to zero. So in the code there has to be a
restriction set whenever this takes place. Whenever the
gradient in the p direction is equal to zero, the edge
direction has to be equal to 90 degrees or 0 degrees,
depending on what the value of the gradient in the qdirection is equal to. If GQ has a value of zero, the
edge direction will equal 0 degrees. Otherwise the
edge direction will equal 90 degrees. Once the edge
direction is known, the next step is to relate the edge
direction to a direction that can be traced in an image.
After the edge directions are known, non maximum
suppression now has to be applied. Non maximum
suppression is used to trace along the edge in the edge
direction and suppress any pixel value (sets it equal to
0) that is not considered to be an edge. This will give a
thin line in the output image. Finally, hysteresis is used
as a means of eliminating streaking To avoid this,
hysteresis uses 2 thresholds, a high and a low. Any
pixel in the image that has a value greater than T1 is
presumed to be an edge pixel, and is marked as such
immediately. Then, any pixels that are connected to
this edge pixel and that have a value greater than T2
are also selected as edge pixels.
C.IMAGE CLASSIFICATION
For each image, we measured several object
statistics: the number of objects in the image per class
and the number of pixels covered by objects of each
class in the entire image as well as in each quadrant of
the image. For each of these statistics, we thereby
obtained a joint distribution on (object class, statistic).
We then marginalized across class to generate
histograms that only measure statistics of the image
segmentation, and contain no semantic information:
‘Object Counts’, ‘Object Area and, concatenating pixel
coverage on the entire image with pixel coverage per
quadrant, ‘Multi scale Object Areas’.
We trained on one half of the images, which
were scored by one half of the participants, and tested
on the left out images, which were scored by the left
out participants. First, we calculated average ρ
between predicted memorability’s and ground truth
memorability’s. Second, we sorted images by
predicted score and selected various ranges of images
in this order, examining average ground truth
memorability on these ranges. As an upper-bound, we
compared to a measure of the available consistency in
our data, in which we predicted that each test set image
would have the same memorability according to our
test set participants as was measured by our training
set participants.
D.RETRIEVAL OF PHOTOGRAPHS
Images are the basis of the retrieval, thus a
image surface is provided, where they can be
produced. Also a database is needed for search, which
also must be set before the search. In case of large
result set the systematic arrangement of search results
makes much easier the overviews, so it is guaranteed.
The methods in our system cannot work
without parameters, and therefore an opportunity is
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provided to set these as well. The number of results to
show in the user interface is an important aspect.
Prima facie the first n pieces of results can be
displayed, which conveniently can be placed in the
user interface. If the retrieval effectiveness is worse by
only a given ratio, the image can be included in the
display list. In our system the possible results are
classified, and the ordered and transparent. By default
the results are displayed by relevance, but falsepositive results can be occurred, which worsen the
retrieval results. If the results are reclassified in
according to some criterion, then the number of falsepositive results decreases.
Thus the user perception is better. Since the
color-based clustering for us is the best solution, so our
choice was the k-means clustering method, which is
perfectly suited for this purpose.
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This frame work has many applications in different
sector. By using the feature extraction in each edge
pixels the refined view of a result is displayed in the
system. The quality of each result is compared with the
images. The feature extracted is categorized and the
accurate view of the result is displayed within the time
limit. Speed of searching the properties can be easily
achieved because of categorized view. The consistency
of data images can be achieved through the scenario.
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images which can retrieve using sketches in frequently
used databases.
The user has a drawing area where he can
draw those sketches, which are the base of the retrieval
method. Using a sketch based system can be very
important and efficient in many areas of the life. In
some cases we can recall our minds with the help of
figures or drawing. In the following paragraph some
application possibilities are analyzed.
The CBIR systems have a big significance in
the criminal investigation. The identification of
unsubstantial images, tattoos and graphics can be
supported by these systems.
Another possible
application area of sketch based information retrieval
is the searching of analog circuit graphs from a big
database. The user has to make a sketch of the analog
circuit, and the system can provide many similar
circuits from the database.
IV.ANALYSIS:
Refined
view
searching
Image
database
According to the framework of the retrieval
system, the admin login to the database and add
images to the dataset. Then the user login to the system
for retrieving images by drawing related sketches for
This paper handles the clarity and photo quality of the
images. Through this frame work the most related
images can be resulted from the related sketch. The
categorized view of each sketch results the accuracy of
the frame work. The retrieval process has to be highly
interactive.The main aim of this frame work is to
introducing the system into the search engine makes
corporate world and even other users bit more efficient
in retrieval of data effectively.
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