Software Requirements Specification for Content Based Image Retrieval

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Software Requirements
Specification
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Content Based Image

Retrieval

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Table of Contents
1.Introduction............................................................................................................................... 3
1.1Purpose ...................................................................................................................................3
1.2Document Conventions..............................................................................................................3
1.3Intended Audience and Reading Suggestions ..............................................................................3
1.4Project Scope...........................................................................................................................3
1.5References...............................................................................................................................3

2.Overall Description.................................................................................................................... 3
2.1Product Perspective ...................................................................................................................4
2.2Product Features.......................................................................................................................4
2.3User Classes and Characteristics.................................................................................................4
2.4Operating Environment ..............................................................................................................4
2.5Design and Implementation Constraints......................................................................................4
2.6User Documentation..................................................................................................................4
2.7Assumptions and Dependencies .................................................................................................4

3.System Features ....................................................................................................................... 4

3.1System Feature 1.......................................................................................................................4
3.2System Feature 2 (and so on) .....................................................................................................5

4.External Interface Requirements ........................................................................................... 5

4.1User Interfaces.........................................................................................................................5
4.2Hardware Interfaces ..................................................................................................................5
4.3Software Interfaces....................................................................................................................5
4.4Communications Interfaces........................................................................................................5

5.Other Nonfunctional Requirements......................................................................................... 5

5.1Performance Requirements ........................................................................................................5
5.2Safety Requirements..................................................................................................................6
5.3Security Requirements...............................................................................................................6
5.4Software Quality Attributes........................................................................................................6

6.Other Requirements .........................................................................................................6

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1. Introduction
1.1 Purpose
The SRS is a technical specification of requirements for the software products. The goal of
software requirement definition is to completely and consistently specify the technical
requirements for the software product in a concise and unambiguous manner.
Thus, the purpose of this document is to describe the external requirements for the research
and development of visual feature descriptors for content based image retrieval. It is a
culmination of requirements that arose at the various phases of development

1.2 Document Conventions

The format of this SRS is simple. Bold face and indentation is used on general topics and or
specific points of interest. The remainder of the document will be written using the standard
font, Arial.

1.3 Intended Audience and Reading Suggestions

This document is intended for any individual user, developer, tester, project manager or
documentation writer that needs to understand the basic system architecture and its
specifications. Here are the potential uses for each one of the reader types:

Developer: The developer who wants to read, change, modify or add new requirements
into the existing program, must firstly consult this document and update the
requirements with appropriate manner so as to not destroy the actual meaning of them
and pass the information correctly to the next phases of the development process.

User: The user of this program reviews the diagrams and the specifications presented in
this document and determines if the software has all the suitable requirements and if the
software developer has implemented all of them.

Tester: The tester needs this document to validate that the initial requirements of this
programs actually corresponds to the executable program correctly.

For each one of the reader types to better understand this document, here is a suggestion of the
chapters to read in this document:

Developer: (1.1 ,1.3 ,2.2 ,2.3 ,2.5 ,2.7 ,3 ,4 ,5 and rest)

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User: (1 ,2.1 ,2.2 ,2.3 ,4.1 ,5.5)

Tester: (1.1 ,2.1 ,2.4 ,2.5 ,2.7 ,3 ,4 ,5)

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1.4 Project Scope

The scope of this SRS document encompasses the following:
1. It serves as a good reference to study, analyze and understand the need for the
development of low-level descriptors for CBIR.
2. It acts a s a verification tool for the final specification.
3. The functionalities derived from the requirement analysis and mentioned in this
document are further refined in the design phase.
The scope of the application to be developed expands over research area of CBIR. It
concentrates on exploration of the already accomplished research work on image content
descriptors, focusing mainly on pixel color. Also, contribution to the enhancement of efficiency of
such techniques is to be made for improved content based image retrieval. The application of
the work to be done covers the following fields:

Military: locating and recognizing remotely sensed objects, interpreting satellite data.

Crime prevention and Security Check: Automatic face recognition systems, finger print or
retina scanning for access privileges.

Medical Diagnosis: Using CBIR in a medical database of medical images aid diagnosis
by identifying similar past cases.

Intellectual Property: Trademark image registration, where a new candidate mark is

compared with existing marks to ensure no risk of confusing property ownership.

1.5 References
This citation is used as a model of reference: [IEEE Std 830-1998]

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2. Overall Description
2.1 Product Perspective
Due to the rapidly growing amount of digital image data on the Internet and in digital libraries,
there is a great need for large image database management and effective image retrieval tools.
Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) is the set of techniques for searching for similar images
from an image database using automatically extracted image features. Tremendous research
has been devoted to CBIR and a variety of solutions have been proposed within the past ten
years. ."Content-based" means that the search will analyze the actual contents of the image.
The term 'content' in this context might refer colors, shapes, textures, or any other information
that can be derived from the image itself. Without the ability to examine image content,
searches must rely on metadata such as captions or keywords, which may be laborious or
expensive to produce.
Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) provides efficient and effective means to extract most
similar images stored in the database based on image contents. It is a technique which aims at
retrieving images which are perceptually and semantically meaningful by making the best use of
a single or combination of visual content descriptors. The major steps are feature extraction and
similarity comparison.
Most current content-based image retrieval systems are still incapable of providing users with
their desired results. The major difficulty lies in the gap between low-level image features and
high-level image semantics. To address the problem, this study reports a framework for effective
image retrieval by employing a novel idea of visual feature extraction and comparison. The
presented algorithm has been integrated into a practical image retrieval system.

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Software Interfaces

A database management system

JDBC API

Java Server Pages

User Interface

Web Pages

Bellow in figure 1 you can see the schema of the client-server relationship of the system.

WEB SERVER
Retrieve Content
Based Matching
Images

Upload a
search image

CLIENT

Figure1

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2.2 Product Features

The major features this program contains are the following:

Cross platform support: Offers operating support for most of the known and commercial
operating systems

Centralized Retrieval: The information retrieval is centralized.

Web Support: The product offers usability in a intranet and internet system

Search: The CBIR software offers image based search and retrieval

2.3 User Classes and Characteristics

The users are categorized into the following:
Physical Actors

User people interested in CBIR based image search.

System Actors:

Client :The client is the system that connects to the server and handles the query based
on the session and finally submits the information back to the server.

Server :The server is the system that accepts multiple connections from clients and
serves the results.

2.4 Operating Environment

This program will operate in the following operating environment for the client and the server
UI:

Apple Mac OS X

Linux/Unix

Microsoft Windows

2.5 Design and Implementation Constraints

This program is created using Java/J2EE language. So a minimum PC having at least 512 MB
of RAM and CPU over 2Ghz is required to run the program with good speed. Also the program
uses at least 15 megabytes of hard disk space to store the program libraries. An installer is used
to unpack them all in an install wizard. For the connection stream Http is used as its the

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common protocol for internet applications. Performance and extensibility must be taken care of
while developing the system.

2.6 User Documentation

NA

2.7 Assumptions and Dependencies

For testing and development purposes, the following should be considered:
Color space: RGB color space should be considered for images.
Color Depth: 24-bit True color images must be taken into account.
Image Format: Images stored in jpg format should be taken up for analysis and testing.

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3. System Features
3.1 Client Interface
3.1.1 Description and Priority
The code is implemented to design a client application in the form of web pages to allow the
user to do a image search. In traditional image search, only keywords are used for searching. In
this module, we design a interface with the option to select a input image that is going to act as
the search content. The input image can be selected and uploaded by the user for the server
code to compare and search from the database of images. This is a high priority feature.

3.1.2 Stimulus/Response Sequences

This feature is the starting point of all the functionalities associated with the system. The
stimulus is from the user when he opens the browser and accesses this application search
page. The user selects an image and clicks on search. The application responds with a list of
images that match the input image.

3.1.3 Functional Requirements

REQ-1:
The feature requires that the user installs a modern browser capable of supporting HTML 4.0

REQ-2:
The feature also requires that the user is able to select an image in jpg format and upload to the
server for further search.

3.2 Image Database

3.2.1 Description and Priority
The set of all images that will act as the image database are categorized and stored in the
server in the appropriate folders. The user can view the set of images from the database. This
is also a high priority feature

3.2.2 Stimulus/Response Sequences

This feature is the base for all the functionalities associated with the system. The stimulus is
from the user when he opens the browser and clicks on view images link. The application
responds with a list of images from the database on the server.

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3.2.3 Functional Requirements

REQ-1:
The feature requires that the user installs a modern browser capable of supporting HTML 4.0

3.3 Visual Feature Extraction

3.3.1 Description and Priority
The visual features like mean and deviation of the pixel values of the images are calculated for
the uploaded image. The source images are categorized and stored in the server to allow any
user to search for the images matching the criteria. The visual features of each image like mean
and deviation are calculated and stored in the database for each image.

3.3.2 Stimulus/Response Sequences

This feature is the base for the search functionality associated with the system. The stimulus is
from the user when he opens the browser and submits an image for search. The application
responds with calculating the mean and standard deviation of the pixel values in the image.

3.3.3 Functional Requirements

REQ-1:
The feature requires that the user installs a modern browser capable of supporting HTML 4.0

REQ-2:
The feature also requires that the user is able to select an image in jpg format and upload to the
server for further search.

3.4 Image Search Result

3.4.1 Description and Priority
After a search is called with an input image, the details of the server images can be graphically
analyzed for relevancy with the search image. Only the images matching the search image
within the specified threshold are retrieved and displayed as search results. The images are
ranked in the order of the closest match to the least match.

3.4.2 Stimulus/Response Sequences

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This feature is the main functionality associated with the system. The stimulus is from the server
after the user opens the browser and submits an image for search. The application responds
with comparing, ranking and displaying the matching images.

3.3.3 Functional Requirements

REQ-1:
The feature requires that the user installs a modern browser capable of supporting HTML 4.0

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4. External Interface Requirements

4.1 User Interfaces
The application requires a modern browser capable of handling HTML 4.0 or above. The
application is written in JSP using java server side code. The jsp pages are compiled to html
and sent to the requesting browser. Hence a browser is required between the software and the
user.

4.2 Hardware Interfaces

For the communication protocol the program needs HTTP protocol supported interfaces. Also in
case that the CBIR Server runs behind a firewall the appropriate ports must be port forwarded
or port triggered for the clients to connect. The basic requirements of the server and client is a
PC with a processor Pentium IV or above, with RAM 512 MB or above, with a Hard disk
capacity of 80 GB or above, with a standard Keyboard and Mouse

4.3 Software Interfaces

Web Language : Java Server Pages
Operating System : OS independent
Web Server : Glassfish Server
Database : MS Access
Database Connectivity : JDBC

4.4 Communications Interfaces

Setting up the server into server mode requires that there will be open ports for accepting
connections from the clients. The connection between the client and the server uses HTTP
Protocol. The entire communication is a series of Http Request and Http Response cycles.

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5. Other Nonfunctional Requirements

5.1 Performance Requirements
The application is real-time and hence a real-time response is expected from the system. The
response for any user click or user search event should be no more than twelve seconds.

5.2 Safety Requirements

Consistency: checking the fact that all clients must be attachable to one server, so there would
be appropriate control of the test statistics and information. Also in case of a potential loss of
connection between the client and the server the clients search progress so far is lost. When the
client finishes its search then its progress is sent to the server and be logged. In case of a
potential server breakdown only the so far finished search are saved to the log file

5.3 Security Requirements

This program uses object oriented mechanisms to protect its data passed using methods Also
currently there is no security schema of this program. Thus the log files that are being created
are readable using a simple text reader.

5.4 Software Quality Attributes

Availability: Checking that the system always has something to function and always pop up
error messages in case of component failure. In that case the error messages appear when
something goes wrong so to prevail availability problems.
Usability : Checking that the system is easy to handle and navigates in the most expected way
with no delays. In that case the system program reacts accordingly and transverses quickly
between its states.
Functionality: Checking that the system provides the right tools for searching databases,
creating search queries tests and analyzing the results. In that case the tools that the Database
editor provides are the ones that provide that attribute.

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6. Other Requirements
NA

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Appendix A: Glossary
BMP - Bitmap
CBIR - Content Based Image Retrieval
DWT - Discrete Wavelet Transform
GUI - Graphical User Interface
HTML Hyper text markup language
HTTP Hyper text transfer protocol
JAI - Java Advanced Imaging
JDBC - Java Database Connectivity
JPG Joint Photographic Experts Group
JRE - Java Runtime Environment
JSP Java Server Pages
PC Personal Computer
RAM - Random Access Memory
RDBMS - Relational Database Management System
SRS - Software Requirement Specification
SQL - Structured Query Language

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Appendix B: Analysis Models

Process Flow Diagram

CLIENT
USER

ADD IMAGES TO THE

DATABASE

SELECT QUERY
IMAGE

RETRIEVE MATCHING
IMAGES

RANK IMAGES

DISPLAY RANKED
SEARCH RESULT

SERVER
IMAGE
DATABASE

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Data Flow Diagram

User

View
db
images

Add
new
catego
ry

Catego
ry

Upload
query
image

Add
new
image

create
category
folder on
server

imagedb

Visual
feature
extraction

Upload
image
to
catego
ry
folder

Visual
feature

System Flow Diagram

Image
Search

Gener
ate
visual
feature

Comp
are
visual
featur
es
Display
matche
d image

View
extracte
d visual
features

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Start

Get image file from db

For each image

Read query image

Resize image to standard size

Resize image to standard size

Create gabor matrix

Create gabor matrix

Calculate mean & standard
deviation visual feature
Calculate mean & standard
deviation (Visual feature)
Obtain visual feature
Save visual feature to database

Take the differences & store in vector

Sort the vector in ascending order

Display top 10 matched images

Stop