Adaptive Weight in Combining Color and Texture Feature in Content Based Image Retrieval

Low-level image feature extraction is the basis of content based image retrieval (CBIR) systems. In that process, the usage of more than one descriptors has tremendous impact on the increasing of system accuracy. Based on that fact, in this paper we combined color and texture feature in the feature extraction process, namely Color Layout Descriptor (CLD) for color feature extraction and Edge Histogram Descriptor (EHD) for texture feature extraction. We measure the system performance on retrieving top-5, top-10, top-15, and top-20 relevant images. We successfully demonstrated in the experiment, that the combination of color and texture descriptor might be improved the performance of retrieval system, significantly. In our proposed system, the combination of CLD and EHD reaches 72.82% in accuracy, using adaptive weight in Late Fusion Method.