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Content-based image retrieval: An application to tattoo images

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Content-based image retrieval: An application to tattoo images
Tattoo images on human body have been routinely collected and used in law enforcement to assist in suspect and victim identification. However, the current practice of matching tattoos is based on keywords. Assigning keywords to individual tattoo images is both tedious and subjective. We have developed a content-based image retrieval system for a tattoo image database. The system automatically extracts image features based on the Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT). Side information, i.e., body location of tattoos and tattoo classes, is utilized to improve the retrieval time and retrieval accuracy. Geometrical constraints are also introduced in SIFT keypoint matching to reduce false retrievals. Experimental results on 1,000 queries against an operational database of 63,593 tattoo images show a rank-20 accuracy of 94.2%; the average matching time per query is 2.9 sec. on Intel Core 2, 2.66 GHz, 3 GB RAM processor.
Anil K. Jain, Jung-Eun Lee, Rong Jin, Nicholas Gre
Added 19 Feb 2011
Updated 19 Feb 2011
Type Journal
Year 2009
Where ICIP
Authors Anil K. Jain, Jung-Eun Lee, Rong Jin, Nicholas Gregg
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