CONTENT BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL APPARATUS AND METHOD

摘要

Disclosed are a content based image retrieval apparatus and a content base image retrieval method. The content based image retrieval apparatus includes: a query image converter converting an inputted query image to a black/white image and normalizing the size of the query image; a shape information extractor extracting a feature on the basis of brightness values in all pixels of the normalized black/white query image; and a shape descriptor configuring section configuring a shape descriptor for each pixel by using the feature.