Weber’s law based multi-level convolution correlation features for image retrieval

Weber’s law reveals the relationship between human perception and perceptual stimuli. Inspired by the theory, this paper designs a multi-level convolution correlation feature statistic method for image retrieval. Firstly, the difference between a central pixel and its neighbors is described by Weber’s law through computing the differential excitation of image. Then, a multi-level saliency map is obtained by binary transformation and convolution operation. Thirdly, to exploit spatial correlation information of the image, a pixels pair-wise correlation and hierarchy statistic model is constructed. Finally, all intermediate features are concatenated into one histogram, which includes salient color and texture features. Extensive experiments demonstrate the proposed method of this paper has excellent performance.