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ISSN: 2250-3005 - ijcer

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International Journal Of Computational Engineering Research (<strong>ijcer</strong>online.com) Vol. 2 Issue. 8Figure 1: The image mining processIt should be noted that image mining is not simply an application of existing data mining techniques to the imagedomain. This is because there are important differences between relational databases versus image databases:(a) Absolute versus relative valuesIn relational databases, the data values are semantically meaningful. For example, age is 35 is well understood. However, inimage databases, the data values themselves may not be significant unless the context supports them. For example, a greyscale value of 46 could appear darker than a grey scale value of 87 if the surrounding context pixels values are all verybright.(b) Spatial information (Independent versus dependent position)Another important difference between relational databases and image databases is that the implicit spatial information iscritical for interpretation of image contents but there is no such requirement in relational databases. As a result, imageminers try to overcome this problem by extracting position-independent features from images first before attempting to mineuseful patterns from the images.(c) Unique versus multiple interpretationA third important difference deals with image characteristics of having multiple interpretations for the same visual patterns.The traditional data mining algorithm of associating a pattern to a class (interpretation) will not work well here. A new classof discovery algorithms is needed to cater to the special needs in mining useful patterns from images.III. METHOD FOR IMAGE MININGIn this section, we present the algorithms needed to perform the mining of associations within the context of images. Thefour major image mining steps are as follows:1. Feature extraction. Segment images into regions identifyable by region descriptors (blobs). Ideallyone blob represents one object. This step is also called segmentation.2. Object identification and record creation. Compare objects in one image to objects in every other image. Label eachobject with an id. We call this step the preprocessing algorithm.3. Create auxiliary images. Generate images with identified objects to interpret the association rules obtained from thefollowing step.4. Apply data mining algorithm to produce object association rules.The idea of this method is selecting a collection of images that belong to a specific field (e.g. weather), after the selectionstage we will extract the objects from each image and indexing all the images with its objects in transaction database, thedata base contain image identification and the objects that belong to each images with its features. After creating thetransaction data base that contains all images and its feature we will use the proposed data mining methods to associate rulesbetween the objects. This will help us for prediction (e.g. if image sky contain black clouds then it will rain (65%))[5].The following block diagram presents the proposed IM method:||Issn <strong>2250</strong>-<strong>3005</strong>(online)|| ||December||2012|| Page 136

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