Arabo-Moresque decor image retrieval system based on mosaic representations

Abstract The paper describes a new method for indexing an Arabo-Moresque decor database. This method requires that the images in the database must have the whole principal geometric information, named ‘spine’ of the decor. In practice, it is difficult to respect this request. When the distance between the camera and the real scene (fresco in Zellij) is big, the whole spine is captured but the resolution of the image is bad. On the other hand, when this distance is small, the resolution is high but the spine is not completely captured. This motivates the use of the ‘mosaicing’ technique. The contribution of this work is the combination of the mosaicing and indexing techniques for the development of an Arabo-Moresque decor image retrieval system.