Supporting image retrieval framework with rule base system

The present paper introduces an image retrieval framework based on a rule base system. The proposed framework makes use of color and texture features, respectively called color co-occurrence matrix (CCM) and difference between pixels of scan pattern (DBPSP). These features are used to perform the image mining for acquiring clustering knowledge from a large empirical images database. Irrelevance between images of the same cluster is precisely considered in the proposed framework through a relevance feedback phase followed by a novel clustering refinement model. The images and their corresponding classes pass to a rule base system for extracting a set of accurate rules. These rules are pruning and may reduce the dimensionality of the extracted features. The advantage of the proposed framework is reflected in the retrieval process, which is limited to the images in the class of rule matched with the query image features. Experiments show that the proposed model achieves a very good performance in terms of the average precision, recall and retrieval time compared with other models.