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A color-intensity feature extraction method is proposed aimed at supplementing conventional image hashing algorithms that only consider intensity of the image. An image is mapped to a set of blocks represented by their dominant colors and average intensities. The dominant color is defined by hue and saturation with the hue value adjusted to make the principal colors more uniformly distributed. The average intensity is extracted from the Y component in the YCbCr space. By quantizing the color and intensity components, a feature vector is formed in a cylindrical coordinate system for each image block, which may be used to generate an intermediate hash. Euclidean distance is modified and a similarity metric introduced to measure the degree of similarity between images in terms of the color-intensity features. This is used to validate effectiveness of the proposed feature vector. Experiments show that the color-intensity feature is robust to normal image processing while sensitive to malicious alteration, in particular, color modification.
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Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.60773079, 60872116, 60832010), and the National High-Technology Research and Development Program of China (Grant No.2007AA01Z477)
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Liu, Tt., Wang, Sz., Zhang, Xp. et al. Extraction of color-intensity feature towards image authentication. J. Shanghai Univ.(Engl. Ed.) 14, 337–342 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11741-010-0655-2
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11741-010-0655-2