A Content-Based Image Retrieval System Using Semi-Supervised Learning and Frequent Patterns Mining

Content-based image retrieval, which is also known as query based on image content, is one of the sub-branches of machine vision, which is used to organize and recognize the content of digital images using visual features. This technology automatically searches the images similar to the query image from huge image database and it provides the most similar images to the users by directly extracting visual features from image data; not keywords and textual annotations. Therefore, in this paper, a method is proposed that utilizes wavelet transformation and combining features with color histogram to reduce the semantic gap between low-level visual features and high-level meanings of images. In this regard, the final output will be presented using the feature extraction method from the input images. In the next step, when the query images are given to the system by the target user, the most similar images are retrieved by using semi-supervised learning that results from the combination of clustering and classification based on frequent patterns mining. The experimental results show that the proposed system has provided the highest level of effectiveness compared to other methods.