Extraction and retrieval of furniture from designing decoration and furniture database

摘要

A novel approach to extract and retrieve furniture items from an image database and online websites which includes multiple furniture items, and then find the similar items from the database. The image could be taken using phone cameras or downloaded from online websites or from shopping malls. A real time application is developed in android phone to find the similar images of furniture taken using the phone camera in which people are interested in. The additional processing can be divided into three steps: first, certain image segmentation techniques are need to be applied to split out each individual furniture item; then, an object recognition technique is applied to each segmented furniture item; finally a shape feature matching scheme is used to retrieve similar images to the segmented furniture items from the database.