Deep learning for fast bronze inscription image retrieval

Collections of bronze inscription images are increasing rapidly. To use these images efficiently, we proposed an effective content-based image retrieval framework using deep learning. Specifically, we extract discriminative local features for image retrieval using the activations of the convolutional neural network and binarize the extracted features for improving the efficiency of image retrieval, firstly. Then, we use the cosine metric and Euclidean metric to calculate the similarity between the query image and dataset images. The result shows that the proposed framework has an impressive accuracy.