Content-Based Image Retrieval with Relevance Feedback in MARS

Technology advances in the areas of Image processing IP and Information Retrieval IR have evolved separately for a long time However successful content based image retrieval systems require the integration of the two There is an urgent need to develop integration mechanisms to link the image retrieval model to text retrieval model such that the well established text retrieval techniques can be utilized Approaches of converting image feature vectors IP do main to weighted term vectors IR domain are proposed in this paper Furthermore the relevance feedback technique from the IR domain is used in content based image retrieval to demonstrate the e ectiveness of this conversion Exper imental results show that the image retrieval precision in creases considerably by using the proposed integration ap proach