Content-Based Image Retrieval Using COSFIRE Descriptors with application to Radio Astronomy

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Autores principales: Ndungu, Steven, Grobler, Trienko, Wijnholds, Stefan J., Azzopardi, George
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Publicado: 2024
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author Ndungu, Steven
Grobler, Trienko
Wijnholds, Stefan J.
Azzopardi, George
author_facet Ndungu, Steven
Grobler, Trienko
Wijnholds, Stefan J.
Azzopardi, George
contents The morphologies of astronomical sources are highly complex, making it essential not only to classify the identified sources into their predefined categories but also to determine the sources that are most similar to a given query source. Image-based retrieval is essential, as it allows an astronomer with a source under study to ask a computer to sift through the large archived database of sources to find the most similar ones. This is of particular interest if the source under study does not fall into a "known" category (anomalous). Our work uses the trainable COSFIRE (Combination of Shifted Filter Responses) approach for image retrieval. COSFIRE filters are automatically configured to extract the hyperlocal geometric arrangements that uniquely describe the morphological characteristics of patterns of interest in a given image; in this case astronomical sources. This is achieved by automatically examining the shape properties of a given prototype source in an image, which ultimately determines the selectivity of a COSFIRE filter. We further utilize hashing techniques, which are efficient in terms of required computation and storage, enabling scalability in handling large data sets in the image retrieval process. We evaluated the effectiveness of our approach by conducting experiments on a benchmark data set of radio galaxies, containing 1,180 training images and 404 test images. Notably, our approach achieved a mean average precision of 91% for image retrieval, surpassing the performance of the competing DenseNet-based method. Moreover, the COSFIRE filters are significantly more computationally efficient, requiring $\sim\!14\times$ fewer operations than the DenseNet-based method.
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spellingShingle Content-Based Image Retrieval Using COSFIRE Descriptors with application to Radio Astronomy
Ndungu, Steven
Grobler, Trienko
Wijnholds, Stefan J.
Azzopardi, George
Image and Video Processing
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
The morphologies of astronomical sources are highly complex, making it essential not only to classify the identified sources into their predefined categories but also to determine the sources that are most similar to a given query source. Image-based retrieval is essential, as it allows an astronomer with a source under study to ask a computer to sift through the large archived database of sources to find the most similar ones. This is of particular interest if the source under study does not fall into a "known" category (anomalous). Our work uses the trainable COSFIRE (Combination of Shifted Filter Responses) approach for image retrieval. COSFIRE filters are automatically configured to extract the hyperlocal geometric arrangements that uniquely describe the morphological characteristics of patterns of interest in a given image; in this case astronomical sources. This is achieved by automatically examining the shape properties of a given prototype source in an image, which ultimately determines the selectivity of a COSFIRE filter. We further utilize hashing techniques, which are efficient in terms of required computation and storage, enabling scalability in handling large data sets in the image retrieval process. We evaluated the effectiveness of our approach by conducting experiments on a benchmark data set of radio galaxies, containing 1,180 training images and 404 test images. Notably, our approach achieved a mean average precision of 91% for image retrieval, surpassing the performance of the competing DenseNet-based method. Moreover, the COSFIRE filters are significantly more computationally efficient, requiring $\sim\!14\times$ fewer operations than the DenseNet-based method.
title Content-Based Image Retrieval Using COSFIRE Descriptors with application to Radio Astronomy
topic Image and Video Processing
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.08227