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Adaptive wavelet-based image characterizations have been proposed in Existing work for content-based image retrieval (CBIR) applications. In this application, the same wavelet basis was used to characterize each query image. This wavelet basis was tuned to maximize the retrieval performance in a training data set. But here a different wavelet basis is used to characterize each query image. A regression function, which is tuned to maximize the retrieval performance in the training data set, is used to estimate the best wavelet filter, i.e., in terms of expected retrieval performance, for each query image. A simple image characterization, which is based on the standardized moments of the wavelet coefficient distributions, is presented. An algorithm is proposed to compute this image characterization almost instantly for every possible separable or no separable wavelet filter. Therefore, using a different wavelet basis for each query image does not considerably increase computation times. On the other hand, significant retrieval performance increases were obtained in a medical image data set, a texture data set, a face recognition data set, and an object picture data set. This additional flexibility in wavelet adaptation paves the way to relevance feedback on image characterization itself and not simply on the way image characterizations are combined.

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Content-based Image Retrieval (CBIR), Relevance Feedback, Wavelet Adaptation, Wavelet Transform

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