Research Article

Image Retrieval Using the Intensity Variation Descriptor

Table 1

Effectiveness of adding RGB colour space information and using the selected direction and lateral inhibition formula.

DatasetPerformance (%)Default settingWithout RGB colour space informationWithout lateral inhibition formulaWithout selected direction
45°90°135°

Corel-5KPrecision66.9165.5066.5066.3966.0866.5466.09
Recall8.037.867.987.977.937.987.93
F-measure14.3414.0414.2514.2314.1614.2614.16

Corel-10KPrecision56.8855.6656.4356.4156.0356.4356.04
Recall6.836.686.776.776.726.776.72
F-measure12.2011.9312.0912.0912.0112.0912.01