Research Article

A Novel Technique Based on Visual Words Fusion Analysis of Sparse Features for Effective Content-Based Image Retrieval

Table 1

Statistical analysis and MAP performance of the proposed technique based on visual words fusion on different dictionary sizes and features percentages per image (bold values indicate the best performance).

Features percentages per imagePerformance analysis in terms of the MAP performance (in %) on the different sizes of the dictionary
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10%74.3074.6076.1078.5079.3080.7084.5076.6075.30
25%75.3075.6076.2079.2079.6081.6084.6077.4075.60
50%75.6076.0076.5080.6081.7082.3087.3077.5076.30
75%75.8076.3077.5081.3082.1083.0185.6078.2076.40
100%76.0077.6079.1081.7082.3083.6085.7078.5077.30
MAP75.4076.1077.1080.2081.0082.2485.9077.6476.18
Std. error0.290.480.560.610.640.510.500.330.34
Std. deviation0.661.091.251.361.431.141.120.740.77
Conf. interval74.50–76.2074.60–77.3075.50–78.6078.50–81.9079.20–82.7080.80–83.6084.10–86.9076.70–78.5075.20–77.10

Statistical analysis using nonparametric Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-rank test

value0.0430.040.040.040.040.040.040.040.04
-value2.0232.032.022.022.022.032.022.022.02