Feature Extraction and Image Retrieval of Landscape Images Based on Image Processing

Facing the existing digital image libraries on landscape, researchers need to urgently solve a challenging problem: how to realize rational management and accurate retrieval of landscape images that contain feature information like hierarchy, layout, color system, and color matching. For accurate organization and labeling of landscape Images, this paper presents a novel method for feature extraction and image retrieval of landscape images based on image processing. Firstly, a color quantization process was designed for landscape images, and used to analyze the color composition and color space pattern (CSP) of such images. Next, the existing methods, which are suitable for the extraction of color features from landscape Images, were briefly reviewed, and the basic flows of our improved algorithm and division method of landscape color blocks (LCBs) were explained. Finally, the retrieval performance of landscape images was improved by matching of weighted color blocks of regional landscape, based on the multi-dimensional color eigenvectors of landscape image. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our algorithm. The research results shed light on the feature extraction from other types of color images.